The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists - 3 Angebote vergleichen

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In Exception_al we know and enjoy the Chronicles of Papefu; he makes us laugh, sometimes with a silent horselaugh, but most importantly, it is the fact that he helps us into learning on how to think (sometimes with impatient truths), to know about honor, humility, and humanity which we often scarce, although we swank with memorable self bragging about being its bearers; and this is presented while facing the sunlight with the fiber of his language, between prose, narrative, songs, and some occasional verses. The energetic plenipotentiary ambassador Papefu does not rest on his journey through time. From the very beginning he meets Adam and Eve and watches them crestfallen and dismayed when they were expelled from the famous garden; he befriends with the seafarer Noah and navigates in his Ark; confronts the dictator Nimrod at the top of the Tower of Babel; lectures the emperor Nebuchadnezzar who filled Babylon with splendor and rebukes his grandson Belshazzar. He witnesses the death and burial of Cyrus the Persian, and together with Aristotle he contributes to the education of Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian who dreamed of conquering the known world at the speed of his sword, and whom he accompanies in several of his trips. Napoleon I Bonaparte treats him like an old friend; and the end of his career, he steps into modern history and has to deal with the Soviet Bolsheviks Lenin and Stalin; besides of surprisingly close his way around the land in the very extraordinary United Socialist States of America (USSA), living as an ordinary citizen, stripped from his privileges as an ambassador, and ending in poverty. CONTENT: -Prologue. -Preamble to The Already Said. -Chapter I: The Plenipotentiary Ambassador. -Chapter II: Cain: The Exceptional Brother. -Chapter III: The Cataclysm of the Exceptional Ones. -Chapter IV: Cam and Nimrod: Two Who Long Thought of Themselves. -Chapter V: Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon Opens its Doors to Papefu. -Chapter VI: The Instruments.

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En Excepcion_al Papefu nos hace reír, a veces hasta con carcajadas silentes; sin embargo, lo más importante es que nos ayuda a pensar. Desde los mismos comienzos conoce a Adam y Eva y los observa alicaídos y consternados cuando se despiden del famoso huerto; se amiga con el navegante Noé y viaja en su Arca; confronta al dictador Nimrod en el tope de la Torre de Babel; lecciona al emperador Nabucodonosor que llenó de esplendor a Babilonia y reprende a su nieto Belsasar. Presencia la muerte y entierro de Ciro el persa, y junto a Aristóteles contribuye a la educación de Alejandro el Grande, el joven macedonio que soñaba con conquistar el mundo conocido a la velocidad de su espada y a quien acompaña en varios de sus viajes. Napoleón I Bonaparte lo trata como un viejo amigo y hasta no le queda otro remedio que pedir su indispensable y sabia ayuda para escapar de la isla Elba. Al final, entra en la historia moderna y tiene que lidiar con los bolcheviques soviéticos de Lénin y Stalin; además de sorpresivamente cerrar su camino por estos lares en los muy extraordinarios Estados Unidos Socialistas de América (EUSA), conviviendo como un ciudadano común y despojado de sus privilegios de embajador. CONTENIDO: -Prólogo. -Preámbulo a lo ya dicho. -Capítulo I: El embajador plenipotenciario. -Capítulo II: Caín: el hermano excepcional. -Capítulo III: El cataclismo de los excepcionales. -Capítulo IV: Cam y Nimrod: dos que mucho pensaron en sí mismos. -Capítulo V: La Babilonia de Nabucodonosor abre sus puertas a Papefu. -Capítulo VI: Los instrumentos de Persia y Grecia. -Capítulo VII: El embajador Papefu visita la Roma del emperador Honorio. -Capítulo VIII: Papefu y Napoleón Bonaparte. -Capítulo IX: Papefu se enfrenta a los dictadores Lénin y Stalin. -Capítulo X: En el final de su viaje, Papefu arriba a los excepcionales Estados Unidos Socialistas de América. -Acerca del autor. TAGS: Papefu, Adam y Eva, Huerto del Edén, Abel y Cain, Arca de Noé, El navegante Noé, Torre.

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Example in this ebook It is now a commonplace of criticism that the epoch of Charles II. was an epoch of decline and degradation for the British drama. The complacent self-felicitations of Dryden in his early days on the superior refinement of his own age, and the consequent superiority of his own plays to those of Elizabeth and James, dispose us to insist upon the contrary view with somewhat emphatic asperity. Yet later, Dryden did ample justice to "the giant race before the flood"-the pre-rebellion poets, by himself so named-expressly repudiating French influence moreover. Indeed, the great wave of dramatic energy had culminated, and was subsiding. The age so extolled by Dryden was, in many respects, unfavourable to dramatic poetry. The Puritan, with his grave, earnest tone, righteous indignation against evil living, and crude, sour, uncultivated other-worldliness, had dehumanized the people, frowning upon art, beauty, and secular knowledge, till they withered and dwindled, as under a blight; so that religious reverence became identified with blind intolerance, virtue and high principle with clownish ignorance and pharisaic cant. Then, after the Restoration-(partly through that tendency to reaction from extremes which characterizes human nature, partly through the direction given to our stage by a dissolute and light king, who had lived an exile at a court where he and his courtiers, besides acquiring foreign tastes, might well learn disuse, and forget the habit of patriotism)-not only a wide-spread sexual license, but a very general social and political corruption prevailed in England. The troublous period of the civil wars, moreover, besides leaving little leisure for the graces of life and courtship of the Muses, had engendered a certain ferocity and violence of tone in political and social relations; the war thunders and commotions still growled and grumbled, heaved and seethed in the sullen subsiding swell of bitter and furious faction-religious fanaticism.