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- 256 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: ROMEO AND JULIET. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play WEST SIDE STORY. Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona, and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side, both tell the story of the plight of young star-crossed" lovers. As Norris Houghton writes in his introduction: "What we see is that all four young people strive to consummate the happiness at the threshold on which they stand and which they have tasted so briefly. All four are deprived of the opportunity to do so, the Renaissance couple by the caprice of fate, today's youngsters by the prejudice and hatred engendered around them. "Poets and playwrights will continue to write of youthful lovers whom fate drives into and out of each other's lives. The spectacle will always trouble and move us, even as the two dramas in this volume do today."
Compra de libros
Romeo and Juliet / West Side Story, Norris Houghton, Laurents Arthur, John Bettenbender, William Shakespeare
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1965
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda),
- Estado del libro
- Dañado
- Precio
- 8,99 €
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- Título
- Romeo and Juliet / West Side Story
- Subtítulo
- Shakespeare's Renowned Tragedy And The Widely Acclaimed Musical Play Together In One Volume
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- Random House
- Publicado en
- 1965
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0440974836
- ISBN13
- 9780440974833
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Teatro, Temática cinematográfica, Obras de teatro, Artes escénicas
- Descripción
- The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: ROMEO AND JULIET. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play WEST SIDE STORY. Though one of these works is set among the nobility of Verona, and the other among immigrant families of New York's West Side, both tell the story of the plight of young star-crossed" lovers. As Norris Houghton writes in his introduction: "What we see is that all four young people strive to consummate the happiness at the threshold on which they stand and which they have tasted so briefly. All four are deprived of the opportunity to do so, the Renaissance couple by the caprice of fate, today's youngsters by the prejudice and hatred engendered around them. "Poets and playwrights will continue to write of youthful lovers whom fate drives into and out of each other's lives. The spectacle will always trouble and move us, even as the two dramas in this volume do today."