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Peter Brook, una de las figuras más relevantes e innovadoras del teatro occidental, pasa revista en este volumen a cuarenta años de su trabajo en el teatro, la ópera y el cine; desde sus primeros montajes en los años cuarenta hasta su memorable versión del Mahabharata. Entre sus muchos éxitos están las producciones de diversas obras de Shakespeare, como El Rey Lear o Sueño de una noche de verano, ... Read more

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Peter Brook, una de las figuras más relevantes e innovadoras del teatro occidental, pasa revista en este volumen a cuarenta años de su trabajo en el teatro, la ópera y el cine; desde sus primeros montajes en los años cuarenta hasta su memorable versión del Mahabharata. Entre sus muchos éxitos están las producciones de diversas obras de Shakespeare, como El Rey Lear o Sueño de una noche de verano,
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The Wings of the Dove

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Series series Oxford World's Classics
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for ... Read more

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ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
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The Empty Space

by Peter Brook ...

'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre ... Read more

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'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre
... Read more
Reading for the Plot

Design and Intention in Narrative

by Peter Brooks ...

A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

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A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.
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Seduced by Story

The Use and Abuse of Narrative

by Peter Brooks ...

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work ... Read more

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In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work
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The Human Comedy

Selected Stories

Translated by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump ...

by Honoré de Balzac ...

**A NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALDiscover 9 classic short stories by the giant of French literature—whose work inspired Dostoyevsky, Henry James, and Marcel Proust—with this collection showcasing Balzac’s impressive range.**Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, ... Read more

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**A NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALDiscover 9 classic short stories by the giant of French literature—whose work inspired Dostoyevsky, Henry James, and Marcel Proust—with this collection showcasing Balzac’s impressive range.**Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists,
... Read more
Oxford Handbook of Pain Management

Edited by Peter Brook, Tony Pickering, Jayne Connell ...

Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
The Oxford Handbook of Pain Management is the essential resource for all clinicians involved in the management of pain. Organised into sections dealing with basic principles of treatment, therapeutic interventions, including non-medical management of pain, and specific clinical situations, the Handbook emphasises the multimodal treatment options available for patients with pain conditions and ... Read more

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The Oxford Handbook of Pain Management is the essential resource for all clinicians involved in the management of pain. Organised into sections dealing with basic principles of treatment, therapeutic interventions, including non-medical management of pain, and specific clinical situations, the Handbook emphasises the multimodal treatment options available for patients with pain conditions and
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Balzac's Lives

by Peter Brooks ...

Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all ... Read more

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Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all
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The Mysteries of Paris

by Eugene Sue ...

Translated by Carolyn Betensky, Jonathan Loesberg ...

The first new translation in over a century of the brilliant epic novel that inspired Les MisérablesSensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of France’s first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the ... Read more

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The first new translation in over a century of the brilliant epic novel that inspired Les MisérablesSensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of France’s first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the
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La puerta abierta

Reflexiones sobre la interpretación y el teatro

by Peter Brook ...

La puerta abierta nos proporciona una absorbente visión del trabajo de Brook: cómo selecciona las obras que dirige, cómo consigue extraordinarias interpretaciones de sus actores y qué pretende a través del teatro, medio que ofrece en su opinión «la más auténtica metáfora de la vida».Brillante y provocativa mirada a la acción que transcurre no solo en escena ante los focos sino también entre ... Read more

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La puerta abierta nos proporciona una absorbente visión del trabajo de Brook: cómo selecciona las obras que dirige, cómo consigue extraordinarias interpretaciones de sus actores y qué pretende a través del teatro, medio que ofrece en su opinión «la más auténtica metáfora de la vida».Brillante y provocativa mirada a la acción que transcurre no solo en escena ante los focos sino también entre
... Read more
The Quality of Mercy

Reflections on Shakespeare

by Peter Brook ...

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics.In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors should approach Shakespeare's verse. He also revisits some of the plays which he has directed with ... Read more

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In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics.In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors should approach Shakespeare's verse. He also revisits some of the plays which he has directed with
... Read more
Conversations with Peter Brook: 1970-2000

Edited by Margaret Croyden ...

-Peter Brook is considered one of the giants in world theatre. ... Read more

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-Peter Brook is considered one of the giants in world theatre.
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