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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Madrid, 1600-Madrid, 1681). España. Su padre era noble y escribano en el consejo de hacienda del rey. Se educó en el colegio imperial de los jesuitas y más tarde entró en las universidades de Alcalá y Salamanca, aunque no se sabe si llegó a graduarse. Tuvo una juventud turbulenta. Incluso…
Historia de Jóvenes enamorados pero el padre ella es un rey y por ser esto tiene mucho poder y no quiere a ese hombre para su hija.
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the…
Fifty years ago Sir Peter Hall directed the English language world premiere of Samuel Backett’s Waiting for Godot. Now he has returned to this extraordinary classic, the quintessential absurdist piece that has become one of the most important works of modern drama. Jonathan Croall, who had access to rehearsals for this landmark anniversary production, combines…
“Naked Athena” leads off Theodore Van Alst Jr.’s 2020 Portland Protest Portfolio in this 2021 volume of Gobshite Quarterly. This issue also contains: An essay by Catalunyan Cristina Álvarez Lopez & a hybrid memoir/poem by PDXer Leanne Grabel. Poems by Croatian poets Tomislav Marijan Bilosnic & Croatian Marija Dejanovic & Monika Herceg, New Yorker poet…
Gobshite Quarterly Summer/Fall 2018, #31/32 features: Every Edge a Centre is an ongoing series of mythopoetic reasoned rants and essays: Nebraska novelist & O. Henry nominee Poe Ballantine looks back at a 1960s relationship with a legend in “Every Edge A Centre: Another zucchini bar, Ken?” (in Eng./Sp./Croat.); Adelaide-based poet & essayist Judith Steele writes…
SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF HELL USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS!Do You Love Horror Books? “Inferno” Images will Scare You Death. “Inferno – The Art Collection” by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece art collection based on Dante’s Inferno story, the first part of the literary masterpiece – The…
A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French history In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips–called bande dessinée or “BD” in French– have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among Frenchspeaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and…
British comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact with the outside world while creating his strange, dense comics, fiction, and performance art. While Moore did declare himself a wizard on his fortieth…
British comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact with the outside world while creating his strange, dense comics, fiction, and performance art. While Moore did declare himself a wizard on his fortieth…
Santé, intimité, et identité dans la bande dessinée autobiographique de tradition franco-belge examines the ways different autobiographical comic books explore the theme of health, and its influence on identity construction. How do artists represent abstract feelings of pain? How do illnesses influence our sense of self? What is the role of others in our personal…
British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance with different foci of interest and narrative methods, until the importation of the American label of “science fiction” initiated a process of fusion that was…
AVVERTENZA Nel voltare in italiano i Racconti delle fate m’ingegnai, per quanto era in me, di serbarmi fedele al testo francese. Parafrasarli a mano libera mi sarebbe parso un mezzo sacrilegio. Ad ogni modo, qua e là mi feci lecite alcune leggerissime varianti, sia di vocabolo, sia di andatura di periodo, sia di modi di…
Macbeth – William Shakespeare…. Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606. The earliest account of a performance…
Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare’s plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of…
Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu est le premier ouvrage du marquis de Sade publié de son vivant, en 1791, un an après avoir été rendu à la liberté par la Révolution et l’abolition des lettres de cachet. C’est aussi la deuxième version de cette oeuvre emblématique, sans cesse récrite, qui a accompagné Sade…
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