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Author: Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In addition to the award-winning translation, the book contains essays discussing Sor Juana's life, the original production of the play, the unique use of asides, and various feminist interpretations of The House of Trials.
Author: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-09-23
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1783194448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others. Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season.
Author: Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Juana Inés de la Cruz
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780820461649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) was famous in her time as a brilliant intellectual, poet, and playwright and is recognized in our time as an early feminist. Her masterpiece of comic theatre, <I>Los empenos de una casa receives its first English translation in this edition. <I>The House of Trials, a romantic comedy of intrigue, mixes lyrical poetry, low puns, songs, sword fights, cross-dressing, and mistaken identities. In addition to the award-winning translation, the book contains essays discussing Sor Juana's life, the original production of the play, the unique use of asides, and various feminist interpretations of the <I>House of Trials."
Author: Christiane Kohl
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2010-10-12
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1590513800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. In this so-called Witness House, perpetrators and victims confronted each other in a microcosm that reflected the events of the high court. Presiding over the affair was the beautiful Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky (a woman so blond and enticing that she was described as a Jean Harlowe look-alike) who took great pride in her ability to keep the household civil and the communal dinners pleasant. A comedy of manners arose among the guests as the urge to continue battle was checked by a sudden and uncomfortable return to civilized life. The trial atmosphere extends to the small group in the villa. Agitated victims confront and avoid perpetrators and sympathizers, and high-ranking officers in the German armed forces struggle to keep their composure. This highly explosive mixture is seasoned with vivid, often humorous, anecdotes of those who had basked in the glory of the inner circles of power. Christiane Kohl focuses on the guilty, the sympathizers, the undecided, and those who always manage to make themselves fit in. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.
