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Two Plays by Denis Diderot - The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family- Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg

English · Hardback

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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family. These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, bourgeois society and reveal an eighteenth-century «suburbia» that populates dramatic and suspenseful situations and settings. The translations are vivid and contemporary and bring the plays alive to early twenty-first-century stage and culture.

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Kiki Gounaridou received her PhD from the University of California, Davis. She teaches theatre history and theory at Smith College. She is the editor of Text & Presentation and the author of Euripides and Alcestis: Simulations, Speculations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture and of Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity.
John Hellweg received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an actor, director, and Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Smith College. He has performed in over thirty productions, most recently with the Talking Band and with the Ensemble of the Romantic Century in New York City, and has directed over forty academic and professional productions.

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Denis Diderot was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, "The Illegitimate Son" and "The Father of the Family".

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Authors Denis Diderot, Kik Gounaridou, Kiki Gounaridou, Joh Hellweg, John Hellweg
Assisted by Tamara Alvarez-Detrell (Editor), G Paulson (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2016
 
EAN 9781433113635
ISBN 978-1-4331-1363-5
No. of pages 175
Dimensions 150 mm x 14 mm x 225 mm
Weight 370 g
Series Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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