Résultats pour "George" dans Drames et pièces de théâtre

George Dandin est un riche paysan. En échange de sa fortune, cédée à M. et Mme de Sottenville, il acquiert un titre de noblesse, un rang et une femme, Angélique. Mais il ne peut rien contre cette épouse qui se refuse à lui et ne peut empêcher Clitandre, gentilhomme libertin mais peureux de la courtiser ouvertement. C'est une sombre farce qui retrace le drame de cet homme jaloux à raison, cocu avéré mais impuissant devant le mensonge. C'est tragique, en fait, comme histoire. Mais on rit quand même.

Cet audio est constitué de "Boubouroche", "Le Gendarme est sans pitié", "Un client sérieux", "L'Article 330", "Lidoire", "La lettre chargée", "Les Têtes de bois" et "Monsieur Badin".

Meeting by chance at a gambling hall in Europe, the separate lives of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth are immediately intertwined. Daniel, an Englishman of uncertain parentage, becomes Gwendolyn's redeemer as she finds herself drawn to his spiritual and altruistic nature after a loveless marriage. But Daniel's path was already set when he rescued a young Jewess from suicide.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a fascinating portrait of 19th-century Europe - disillusioned and ravaged by the wars of the postrevolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Our protagonist, whose breathtaking journey eerily echoes Byron's own life story, forgoes his destiny back home for the exciting unknown - the nature of humanity and the transformative effects of travel burst through the pages in four powerful cantos of Spenserian stanzas. Here is the poem that set Byron on his meteoric rise to fame in London society.

Ride into the Wild West with this action-packed podcast featuring the legendary masked hero, The Lone Ranger. Alongside his trusted companion Tonto, the Lone Ranger travels across the frontier delivering justice wherever it’s needed most.Each episode brings thrilling tales of outlaws, lawmen, and frontier towns in peril, as the Lone Ranger uses courage, skill, and a strong moral code to fight for justice. With his iconic silver bullets and unwavering commitment to doing what’s right, he stands as a symbol of integrity in a rugged and lawless land.Perfect for fans of classic Western ...

Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing.

The Emporor of Rome and the Queen of the Nile as only Shaw could have imagined them! He is a self-doubting cynic who is experiencing a mid-life crisis and she is an imperious and impertinent child on the threshold of womanhood. This recording also includes Shaw's alternate Prologue and his post-text notes.

Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Devil’s Disciple, Major Barbara, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misalliance, and Pygmalion.

Depiction of a dystopian society in the future in which manipulative social control is exercised on a gullible population… (summary by Peter Tucker)

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity. 

A spirited factory worker on a mission. A nerdy manager with a propensity for puzzles. An unexpected adventure. Charmingly British and off-beat, Miscellaneous 0125 is a story about following your dreams, healing past traumas, and the joy of truly being understood.

To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, Man and Superman was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization. "A comedy and a philosophy", Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the elements from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Shaw reordered them so that Don Juan becomes the quarry instead of the huntsman. Boasting an outstanding cast including Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Dame Judi Dench, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Paul Merton.

In the aftermath of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, as peace reigns, Louis XIV decides to host a grand festival in his cherished gardens at Versailles, with Molières lively comedy, George Dandin, as the highlight. The story unfolds as a wife returns home late to find the door locked and threatens to end her life if her husband doesn’t let her in. In a clever twist, she feigns a suicide attempt, causing her husband to rush out in a panic, only for her to sneak inside and lock him out. With the added chaos of her clueless parents—aptly named Sotenville, meaning Idiot in Town—this tale ...

An Appendix to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Follows the exploits of a superhero as he battles evil and upholds justice, using his extraordinary powers to protect the innocent. The series combines action with moral lessons.

Follows the exploits of a superhero as he battles evil and upholds justice, using his extraordinary powers to protect the innocent. The series combines action with moral lessons.

The story takes place in an imagined future. The current year is uncertain, but believed to be 1984. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.

Dantons Tod spielt zur Zeit der Französischen Revolution – in einer Phase, in der die Schreckensherrschaft unter Robespierre eskaliert. Georg Büchners Drama zeigt das innere Ringen des Revolutionsführers Danton, der von Zweifeln, Schuldgefühlen und Müdigkeit gegenüber der Gewalt zerrissen ist. Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder – und Danton wird selbst zum Opfer eines Systems, das er einst mitgeschaffen hat.

A Florence, Lorenzo projette d'assassiner son cousin, le tyran Alexandre de Médicis, un butor débauché et cruel. Entre désenchantement et idéalisme, la figure complexe de celui que l'on surnomme Lorenzaccio a inspiré à Alfred de Musset ce chef-d'œuvre du drame romantique.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours.