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Libretti of 27 operas
Libretti of 27 operas
George Handel
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This file includes: Acis and Galatea; Admeto; Alexander Balus; Alexander's Feast; An Occasional Oratorio; Ariodante; Athalia; Belshazzar; The Choice of Hercules; Deborah; Esther; Giulio Cesare; Israel in Egypt; Jephtha; Joseph and His Brethern; ; Judas Maccabaeus; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato; Messiah; An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Rinaldo, in Italian; Samson; Semele; Solomon; Susanna; Theodora; and The Triumph of Time and Truth. According to Wikipedia: "George Frederic Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. He was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England. Born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727. His works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Strongly influenced by the techniques of the great composers of the Italian Baroque era, as well as the English composer Henry Purcell, Handel's music became well-known to many composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven."
Sept pièces
Sept pièces
Moliere
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Ce fichier comprend: Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre (1663); L'Avare (1667); L'?tourdi ou Les Contre-Temps (1653-1658); Le Mariage Forcé (1664); Le Médecin Malgré Lui (1666); Les Précieuses Ridicules (1659); et Sganarelle ou Le Cocu Imaginaire (1660); Selon Wikipedia: "Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, connu surtout sous son nom de scène Molière (15 janvier 1622 - 17 février 1673) était un dramaturge et acteur fran?ais considéré comme l'un des plus grands ma?tres de la comédie dans la littérature occidentale. Les drames les plus connus de Molière sont Le Misanthrope (Le Misanthrope), L'?cole des femmes, Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite, L'Avare ou L'?cole du Mensonge. Le Malade imaginaire, et Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, issu d'une famille prospère et ayant étudié au Collège de Clermont (aujourd'hui le Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière était bien placé pour débuter une La vie au thé?tre Treize ans en tant qu'acteur itinérant l'ont aidé à peaufiner ses capacités comiques en commen?ant à écrire, en combinant les éléments de la Commedia dell'Arte avec la comédie fran?aise, plus raffinée.
Hesiod and Homerica
Hesiod and Homerica
Hesiod
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This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry, including: Works and Days, and Theogony both attributed to Hesiod; Homeric Hymns and Epigrams of Homer both attributed to Homer; plus various fragments such as Fragments of the Epic Cycle. According to Wikipedia: "Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition." According to Wikipedia: "Hesiod was a Greek oral poet, who may have lived around 700 BCE or earlier. Hesiod and Homer are generally considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived since at least Herodotus' time (Histories, 2.53), and they are often paired... Hesiod's writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping."
La Comedie des Meprises, Comedy of Errors in French
La Comedie des Meprises, Comedy of Errors in French
William Shakespeare
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Traduit par Fran?ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), historien fran?ais et homme d'?tat. Publié en 1862. Selon Wikipedia: "La comédie des erreurs est l'une des premières pièces de William Shakespeare, une de ses comédies les plus courtes et les plus farfelues, avec une part importante de l'humour venant de l'idiotie et de l'erreur. calembours et jeu de mots. "
Le Jour des Rois (Twelfth Night in French)
Le Jour des Rois (Twelfth Night in French)
William Shakespeare
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Comédie de Shakespeare traduite en fran?ais par Fran?ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), historien fran?ais et homme d'?tat. Publié en 1862. Selon Wikipedia: "Twelfth Night, ou, What You Will est une comédie de William Shakespeare, qui aurait été écrite autour de 1601-02 comme divertissement de la Douzième Nuit pour la fin de la saison de No?l. les intermèdes musicaux et le désordre émotif attendu de l'occasion, avec des éléments de l'intrigue tirée de la nouvelle "D'Apollonius et Silla" de Barnabe Rich, basée sur une histoire de Matteo Bandello, dont le premier enregistrement date du 2 février 1602, à Candlemas, la fin formelle de Christmastide dans le calendrier de l'année.La pièce n'a pas été publiée jusqu'à son inclusion dans le First Folio 1623. "
Jules Cesar, Julius Caesar in French
Jules Cesar, Julius Caesar in French
William Shakespeare
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La tragédie de Shakespeare. Selon Wikipedia: "Le fant?me de César raille Brutus au sujet de sa défaite imminente. (Copperplate gravure par Edward Scriven d'un tableau de Richard Westall: Londres, 1802.) La tragédie de Jules César, aussi connu simplement comme Jules César, est une tragédie par William Shakespeare, qui aurait été écrit en 1599. Il décrit la conspiration de 44 avant J.-C. contre le dictateur romain Jules César, son assassinat et la défaite des conspirateurs à la bataille de Philippes, une des nombreuses pièces romaines écrites par Shakespeare, basé sur de vrais événements de l'histoire romaine, qui comprennent également Coriolanus et Antony et Cléop?tre. "
Beethoven: a Character Study
Beethoven: a Character Study
George Alexander Fischer
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First published in 1905, the book begins: "As life broadens with advancing culture, and people are able to appropriate to themselves more of the various forms of art, the artist himself attains to greater power, his abilities increase in direct ratio with the progress in culture made by the people and their ability to comprehend him. When one side or phase of an art comes to be received, new and more difficult problems are invariably presented, the elucidation of which can only be effected by a higher development of the faculties. There is never an approach to equilibrium between the artist and his public. As it advances in knowledge of his art, he maintains the want of balance, the disproportion that always exists between the genius and the ordinary man, by rising ever to greater heights. If Bach is the mathematician of music, as has been asserted, Beethoven is its philosopher. In his work the philosophic spirit comes to the fore. To the genius of the musician is added in Beethoven a wide mental grasp, an altruistic spirit, that seeks to help humanity on the upward path. He addresses the intellect of mankind." According to Wikipedia: "Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time."
Romeo und Juliette
Romeo und Juliette
William Shakespeare
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Die Shakespeare-Trag?die, übersetzt von Christoph Martin Wieland. Wikipedia: "Romeo und Julia ist eine Trag?die, die früh in der Karriere von William Shakespeare über zwei jugendliche" Stern-überkreuzte Liebende "geschrieben wurde, deren pl?tzlicher Tod ihre verfeindeten Familien vereint. Es war zu Shakespeares popul?rsten Stücken zu seinen Lebzeiten mit Hamlet, ist eines seiner am h?ufigsten aufgeführten Stücke. Heute gelten die Titelfiguren als archetypische junge Liebhaber. "
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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All three series. This edition is based on on the first published collection, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson, which was released in three "series", the first of which appeared in 1890. According to Wikipedia, Mabel Loomis Todd "became friends with the Dickinsons, and though she never met Emily Dickinson in person, the two women exchanged letters. After Emily's death in 1886, hundreds of her unpublished poems were discovered. In 1888, Emily's sister Lavinia asked Todd to copy and organize the poems, which were to be sent to the publisher Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The first volume of Poems by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890. This version included many alterations by Todd. In 1896, Todd and the Dickinson family had a falling-out over a legal battle regarding property owned by Austin Dickinson. As a result, Emily Dickinson's manuscripts were split between the two families. In 1945, Todd's daughter Millicent published some of the poems from Todd's portion of the manuscripts."
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
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Classic play. According to Wikipedia: "An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After Earnest it is his most popularly produced play... Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of 'gross indecency.'"
Lectures on Landscape
Lectures on Landscape
John Ruskin
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According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
Epicoene, Or the Silent Woman
Epicoene, Or the Silent Woman
Ben Jonson
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Classic Elizabethan play. According to Prof. Felix Schelling in his introduction to the Complete Plays of Ben Jonson: "THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age." According to Wikipedia: "Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets"
The Taming of the Shrew, with line numbers
The Taming of the Shrew, with line numbers
William Shakespeare
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Classic Shakespearean comedy, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord. The Lord has a play performed for Sly's amusement with a primary and sub-plot. The main plot depicts the courting of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate, and eponymous shrew. Katherina is at first an unwilling participant in the relationship but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments - the "taming" - until she is an obedient bride. The sub-plot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's less intractable sister, Bianca."
The London Prodigal, Shakespeare Apocrypha
The London Prodigal, Shakespeare Apocrypha
William Shakespeare
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Elizabethan play, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."
The Wolves and the Lamb
The Wolves and the Lamb
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Classic play. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirize whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television. In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirizes those values."
The Inspector General
The Inspector General
Nikolai Gogol
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Classic satiric play. According to Wikipedia: "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( 1809 - 1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism," he was one of the first Russian authors to criticize his country's way of life. The novels Taras Bul'ba (1835; 1842 [revised edition]), Dead Souls (1842), the play The Inspector-General (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) are among his masterpieces."
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
John Buchan
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of John Buchan’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Buchan includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Buchan’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
L. Frank Baum
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. Frank Baum’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Baum includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Baum’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Il
The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Il
L. Frank Baum
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. Frank Baum’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Baum includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Baum’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
L. Frank Baum
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. Frank Baum’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Baum includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Baum’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
H. Rider Haggard
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Haggard includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Haggard’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles