Aleksander Fredro: Three Plays,
Revenge; Virgin's Vows; the Annuity
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2015
290 pages
978-1-78319-259-5 (ISBN)
Description
The extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the Father of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, was the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of three of Fredros best known plays should do much to repair the relative ignorance of his works in this country. Virgins Vows generally regarded as Fredros most accomplished comedy and The Annuity, both reflect the authors awareness of the disadvantages suffered by young women in a male-dominated society. Revenge is a seemingly innocent social comedy about a property dispute, but the Russian censors of his day were not slow to spot the subversive potential of the play. Noel Clarks translations of Revenge and Virgins Vows have been broadcast, to much acclaim, by the BBC World Service
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78319-259-5 (9781783192595)
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11/1993
Oberon Books Ltd
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Persons
Noel Clark was born in London and studied at Queen's College, Oxford. He has worked for the BBC as a foreign correspondent and then as a freelance literary translator - mostly of classic plays in verse - from Polish, French, Dutch and German. His translations include the works of Fredro, Wyspianski, Vondel, Kleist, Lessing, Corneille, Moliere, and many others.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Revenge [Zemsta]
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- Revenge: [Sluby PaniéNskie]
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- Act Five
- The Annuity: [Dozywocie]
- Characters
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
