Nelson Rodrigues: Selected Plays - Wedding Dress; Waltz No. 6; All Nudity Will Punished; Forgive Me for

Nelson Falcao Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters'' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil''s greatest playwright.This volume contains brand-new translations of the plays Wedding Dress; Waltz No. 6; All Nudity Will Punished; Forgive Me for Your Betrayal; Family Portraits; Black Angel and Seven Little Kitties.>

Product details

• Authors: Nelson Rodrigues
• Assisted by: Almiro Andrade (Translation), Susannah Finzi (Translation), Finzi Susannah (Translation), Daniel Hahn (Translation), Hahn Daniel (Translation)
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781786827159
• ISBN: 978-1-78682-715-9
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oberon Modern Plays; Oberon Modern Playwrights; Methuen Drama Play Collections
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin America, Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights