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The Green Cockatoo is a short play set in a busy tavern on the night of the storming of the Bastille. Rich Parisian nobles come to watch some actors play at being rogues, thieves, and other criminals, but they quickly find reality and fantasy blending together in the most alarming of ways.

This book contains two plays by Henrik Ibsen. Norma is a satirical opera designed as a dramatic parody of Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma, in which the characters are portrayed as central figures in the political life of contemporary Norway. St. John's Night is a fairy-tale comedy that takes place during a midsummer feast on a farm in Telemark. It is inspired by many sources, most notably A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, and features many of the same themes.

Two British members of Parliament - one an elder conservative, the other a younger man with a liberal bent (and an eye on the older man's daughter) face a difficult choice. Some stranger has left each of them a considerable fortune on condition they give up their well-respected family names and adopt that of Wurzel-Flummery.

Es ist Sommer. Die Eltern sind auf Reisen und schicken ihren Kindern täglich eine Ansichtskarte von den exotischen Plätzen dieser Welt. Der Großvater liest daraus vor, was er lesen möchte, und das ist meist das Gegenteil dessen, was dort geschrieben steht. Für die Kinder Anlass genug, sich selbst das Lesen beizubringen. Lesen kann man angeblich auch von den Vögeln lernen. Die Kinder mit ihren selbstgebauten Flugmaschinen aus Federn, Papier und Draht.

Delve into the world of Rosemary Timperley if you dare! In this chilling collection, discover ten chilling full-cast dramatisations of sinister stories and suspenseful tales and immerse yourself in a totally unique listening experience. Recorded with a full musical score, these standalone tales are perfect for fans of the supernatural and will raise goosebumps on even the warmest of days.

Vor ziemlich genau 500 Jahren in Sevilla: Fernando und Enrique sind unzertrennlich und haben es faustdick hinter den Ohren! Ihre beste Freundin Katharina ist die Dritte im Bunde. Sie ist gleichzeitig die weltbeste Geschichtenerzählerin und die Prinzessin von Spanien. Doch eines Tages fallen Katharina keine Geschichten mehr ein, sie hat Fernando und Enrique schon alle erzählt, die sie kennt. "Das kann doch nicht sein!", empören sich die beiden Jungs und nehmen diese tragische Tatsache zum Anlass für ein waghalsiges Abenteuer.

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) literary short stories from Don DeLillo, the National Book Award-winning author of Underworld and Falling Man. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a...

Stephen Leacock was a prolific and brilliant writer, whose tongue-in-cheek writings have been amusing Canadian fans for decades. He first published Winsome Winnie in 1920 as part of a compendium of short stories entitled Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels. It relates the trials and tribulations of the recently orphaned and penniless Winnifred Clair.

Louis Esson is considered to be the first great Australian dramatist. As with most of his work, these four plays depict life from the view of the common man and provide vivid presentations of life, both urban and rural, in Australia before the First World War.

Originally produced for Chicago Theatres on the Air, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits contains some of the most memorable scenes from the Bard's most profound works: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Othello, and many more. It was performed by Chicago's Shakespeare Repertory, including Amy Irving and Kevin Gudhal, in 1993.

King Claudius, when a young man, wrote a five-act tragedy which was damned, and all reference to it forbidden under penalty of death. The King has a son - Hamlet - whose tendency to soliloquize has so alarmed his mother, Queen Gertrude, that she has sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to devise some Court revels for his entertainment. Rosencrantz is a former lover of Ophelia, to whom Hamlet is betrothed, and they lay their heads together to devise a plan by which Hamlet may be put out of the way. Some Court theatricals are in preparation.

Sprachen sind faszinierend. Wusstest du zum Beispiel, dass es in Finnland ein eigenes Wort dafür gibt, sich bis auf die Unterhosen auszuziehen, um sich dann allein zu betrinken? Kalsarikännit. Oder wusstest du, dass die alten Hawaiianer über 200 Wörter für die verschiedenen Arten von Regen hatten und sogar mehr als 600 für Winde?

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.