martes, 14 de enero de 2020
EXAMEN
Curso 2019-2020
El examen de la primera convocatoria tendrá lugar el viernes 17 enero
Interfacultades, aula 502 10-13h.
Tiene el examen dos partes; quienes entreguen trabajos de curso sólo tienen que realizar la primera.
La segunda parte es un comentario de texto sobre una escena de uno de los dramas incluidos en las lecturas obligatorias, y puntúa lo mismo que los dos trabajos (6 puntos).
La primera parte del examan (4 puntos), la que tiene que realizar todo el mundo, consiste en:
a- Preguntas tipo test sobre autores, obras, géneros, etc. tratados en el programa. (Multiple choice, a elegir una respuesta; dos fallos descuentan un acierto)
b- Un tema a elegir entre dos (sobre uno de los autores principales del programa, o sobre una cuestión más relacionada con épocas, géneros, estilos dramáticos, etc.).
sábado, 11 de enero de 2020
viernes, 10 de enero de 2020
jueves, 9 de enero de 2020
Bernard Shaw - NIVEL AVANZADO
- A performance of MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION.
- A paper of mine on a late play by Shaw (Too True to Be Good).
miércoles, 8 de enero de 2020
8. DRAMA 1950-
Nos despedimos del teatro del siglo XX con otra obra de Beckett: Play
More extremely popular drama: you can check out on YouTube the musicals
of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, for instance Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the
Opera.... This is Herod's song from Jesus Christ Superstar.
DAVID EDGAR (b. 1948)
_____. Destiny. Premiere at Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977. (Fascism).
_____. Mary Barnes. (Methuen's Modern Plays). London: Eyre Methuen.
_____. Nicholas Nickleby. Drama based on Dickens's novel. Performed by
the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1980.
_____. Maydays. Drama. 1983.
_____. Albert Speer. 2000.
DAVID HARE (b. 1947)
_____. The Great Exhibition. Drama.
1972.
_____. Plenty. Drama. Prod.
at the National Theatre, 1978. (Filmed 1985).
_____. Fanshen. Drama. 1975.
_____. Teeth 'n' Smiles. Drama.
Premiere at London, 1975. (Pop concert at Cambridge).
_____. Licking Hitler. Director: David Hare. BBC, 1977. Online at
YouTube (CIDrama14) 26 March 2014.*
http://youtu.be/YmW-7DzNvzg
_____. Racing Demon. Drama.
_____. The Secret Rapture. Drama.
_____. Skylight. Drama.
_____. Amy's View. Drama.
1997.
_____. The Judas Kiss. Drama.
(On Oscar Wilde). Broadway performance (with Liam Neeson, Tom Hollander
and Peter Capaldi), 1998.
_____. "Why Fabulate?" The Guardian 2 Feb. 2002. (Documentary drama).
_____. Stuff Happens. 2004.
(On Blair, Bush, Rice and Powell, Iraq war)
_____. Obedience, Struggle &
Revolt. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
Hare, David. Yesterday's News. Verbatim
drama. Joint Stock Theatre Company, 1976.
_____. The Permanent Way.
Verbatim drama. Prod. Joint Stock, National Theatre, 2004.
_____. Via Dolorosa. Verbatim
monodrama, performed by Hare, 1998. (Israel and Palestine).
Brenton, Howard, and David Hare. Pravda:
A Fleet Street Comedy. Drama. Prod. at the National Theatre,
1985.
CARYL CHURCHILL (1938)
_____. Cloud Nine. Drama. Pluto, 1979. Rev. ed: Methuen, 1984.
_____. Top Girls. Drama. London: Methuen, 1982. Rev. ed. 1984.
_____. Serious Money. Drama. London: Methuen, 1987.
_____. The Striker. Drama. Nick Hern, 1994.
_____. Blue Heart. Short dramas (Heart's Desire, Blue Kettle). 1997.
_____. Far Away. London: The Ambassador Theatre Group / Old Vic
Productions, 2000.
_____. A Number. Drama. London: Nick Hern Books, 2002.
_____. Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Drama. London: Nick Hern Books,
2006.
_____. Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza. London: Nick Hern Books,
2009.
BRIAN FRIEL (1929-2015)
_____. The Enemy Within. Drama. 1st produced Abbey Theatre,
Dublin, at Queen's Theatre, 6 August 1962.
_____. Philadelphia, Here I Come! Drama. 1964.
_____. The Freedom of the City. Drama. 1973.
_____. Volunteers. Drama. 1st peformed Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1975.
_____. Faith Healer. Drama. London: Faber and Faber, 1980.*
_____. Translations. Drama. 1980.
_____. Making History. Drama. Performed by Field Day Theatre
Company 1988.
_____. Dancing at Lughnasa. Drama. First produced Abbey Theatre, 1990.
_____. Wonderful Tennessee. Drama. 1st performed Abbey Theatre,
1993.
_____. Molly Sweeney. Drama. 1st produced Gate Theatre, Dublin,
1994.
Irish dramatist, b. Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland; l. Co. Donegal.
Is the
playwright Dead? An Oxford debate with David Edgar et al.
(audio).
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Aquí
está (en varias partes) en versión original subitulada en inglés, la
película de Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead—a metadrama if you've
seen one:
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead.html
Cosas adicionales:
Tom Stoppard últimamente: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040546#
—aqui Michael Billington (famoso crítico teatral) sobre
la última obra de Stoppard: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/17/tom-stoppard-the-hard-problem-national-theatre-london
Y como guionista en
Anna Karenina.
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TOM STOPPARD (1937)
____. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Drama. Amateur
premiere at the Edinburgh Festival, 1966; National Theatre, April 1967.
_____. If You're Glad I'll be Frank. Radio
play. 1966.
_____. The Real Inspector Hound. Drama. 1968.
_____. Jumpers. Drama. Performed by the National Theatre, 1972.
(Fascism).
_____. Travesties. Drama. Prod. RSC, 1975. (Joyce,
Tzara, Lenin,
The
Importance of Being Earnest).
_____. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Musical
play. 1977.
_____. Night and Day. Drama. 1978.
_____. Professional Foul. TV
drama. 1978.
_____. Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth. 1979.
_____. On the Razzle. Drama.
1981.
_____ . The Real Thing. Drama.
1982.
_____. Hapgood. Drama. 1988.
_____. Brazil. Screenplay. Dir. Terry Gilliam.
_____. The Invention of Love. Drama.
(On Housman and Wilde).
_____. Arcadia. 1993.
_____.
Rock'n Roll.
_____. Darkside. Radio play
based on Pink Floyd's
The Dark Side of the
Moon. 2013.
_____. The Hard Problem. Premiere
at the National Theatre, dir. Nicholas Hytner, 2015.*
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-hard-problem
JOE ORTON (1933-1967)
_____. Entertaining Mr Sloane.
Comedy. 1964.
_____. Loot. Drama. 1966.
_____. The Ruffian on the Stair.
Drama. 1967.
_____. The Erpingham Camp. Drama.
1967.
_____. What the Butler Saw.
Comedy. Premiere, London, 1969.
Joe Orton, British playwright, homosexual, anarchic and irreverent
comic style,
murdered by his companion Kenneth Halliwell — see film Prick Up Your Ears.
HAROLD PINTER (1930-2008)
_____. The Room. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Dumb Waiter. Drama. 1957. First performed 1960.
_____. The Birthday Party. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Caretaker. Drama. 1959, performed 1960.
_____. The Homecoming. Drama. 1st performed by the Royal Shakespeare
Company, 1964.
_____. The Lover. Drama. 1963.
_____. Tea Party. TV drama. 1965.
_____. The Basement. TV drama. 1967.
_____. Old Times. Drama. London: Methuen, 1971.
_____. No Man's Land. TV drama. 1975. Granada TV prod. 1978. (With John
Gielgud).
_____. Betrayal. TV drama. 1978. Feature film 1981.
_____. One for the Road. Drama. 1984.
_____. Mountain Language. Drama. 1988.
_____. Family Voices. London: Next Editions / Faber, 1981.
_____. Family Voices. In Pinter, Plays Four. London: Faber and Faber,
1993.
_____. A Kind of Alaska.
Harold Pinter, British modernist dramatist, b. East
London, son of
a Jewish tailor; itinerant actor, success as dramatist of
incommunication; m. Vivian Merchant 1956, successful dramatic director,
screenwriter; 1 son; unhappy marriage and adulterous affairs, affair
and 2nd marriage with Lady Antonia Fraser 1975-, grand social life;
exwife sunk into resentment and terminal alcoholism, estranged from him
after divorce. Pinter went from existential to political dramatist,
left-wing outspoken critic of Blair and Bush, human rights activist;
Nobel Prize for Literature 2005, d. of cancer.
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No Man's Land - Tierra de Nadie de Pinter está este curso de gira por España.
14-15 de enero - Despedida con una visión panorámica de algunos autores desde 1950: Osborne, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard...
ARNOLD WESKER (b. 1932)
______. The Kitchen. Drama. Premiere 1957. London, Royal Court Theatre, 1959.
_____. Chicken Soup with Barley. Drama. 1958.
_____. Roots. Drama. Premiere at Coventry and London, 1959. (Working class, disillusion).
_____. I'm Talking about Jerusalem. Drama. 1960.
_____. Chips with Everything. Drama. Performed at the Royal Court theatre, 1962.
_____. The Merchant. Drama. 1976.
JOHN ARDEN (1930)
_____. Live Like Pigs. Drama. 1958.
_____. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Drama. Premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1959.
_____. Left-Handed Liberty. Drama. 1965.
_____. The Hero Rises Up. Drama. 1968.
_____. The Island of the Mighty. Drama. 1972.
_____. Serjeant Musgrave Dances On. Drama. 1972.
JOHN OSBORNE (1929-1994)
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 1956.
_____. The Entertainer. Drama. 1957. (On a music-hall performer).
_____. Luther. Drama. 1961.
_____. Inadmissible Evidence. Drama. Premiere at London, 1965. (Solicitors, trials).
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LOOKING BACK AT OSBORNE'S ANGER (2006). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4977716.stm
Edward Bond. Y una reseña sobre Saved.
Más sobre Bond—y Shakespeare: Un anillo en Bingo.
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SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)
_____. Waiting for Godot. 1953/54.
_____. Endgame. 1954/58.
_____. All That Fall. Radio play. 1957.
_____. Embers. Radio play. 1959.
_____. Cascando. Radio play. 1953.
_____. Krapp's Last Tape. 1968.
_____. Happy Days. 1961.
_____. Words and Music. Radio play. 1962.
_____. Play. 1963.
_____. Eh Joe. TV play. 1966.
_____. Breath. 1969.
_____. Not I. 1973.
_____. That Time. 1974.
_____. Ghost Trio. TV play. 1977.
_____. Catastrophe. 1984.
Samuel Beckett, Anglo-Irish and French modernist writer, b. Foxrock, Ireland; st. Portora School, Trinity College Dublin, Sorbonne; l. Ireland, Paris; loved cousin Peggy Sinclair; m. Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil; member of the Resistance, l. in hiding in Roussillon; experimental writer and dramatist in English and French, l. Paris; Nobel Prize 1969; d. Paris.
Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett: https://youtu.be/-N99S8n2TiA
Aquí un capítulo sobre el teatro desde 1960 hasta 1990
De las obras mencionadas allí, quizá os interese ver Marat/Sade en el montaje de Peter Brook, como modelo de obra influida por la estética del "teatro de la crueldad" de Antonin Artaud.
Y aquí otro capítulo sobre el teatro en los años 1945-60
Los dos vienen del manual de Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature.
Más teatro irlandés, por así decirlo: HAPPY DAYS, de SAMUEL BECKETT
lunes, 6 de enero de 2020
Time and the Conways by J B Priestley
the Conways. 1937.
This BBC Radio production features a distinguished cast, including Marcia Warren, Stella Gonet, Belinda Sinclair, Amanda Redman, and Toby Stephens. Mrs Conway: Marcia Warren Madge: Stella Gonet Kay: Belinda Sinclair Hazel: Amanda Redman Carol: Emma Fielding Alan: John Duttine Robin: Toby Stephens Ernest Beevers: John McArdle Joan Helford: Julia Hills Gerald Thorton: Christopher Scott Mr Ackroyd: Malcolm McKee Mrs Ackroyd: Sharon Wilmott Music composed by: Malcolm McKee. Oboe: Jenny Philips Directed by Sue Wilson BBC Radio 4 FM, 17 September 1994 19.50
J B Priestley (NIVEL AVANZADO)
Time and The Conways - Nivel avanzado:
- Wood, E. R. "An introduction to Time and the Conways."
- Y también un comentario mío sobre una representación de esta obra en el Teatro Principal.
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Otras obras de J.B. Priestley:
- Eden End (1934):
- I Have Been Here Before (1938):
domingo, 5 de enero de 2020
jueves, 2 de enero de 2020
British drama 1900-1950
Poco nos da tiempo de ver en clase sobre las unidades 7 y 8. Hablaremos un poquito sobre Bernard Shaw, y algo sobre el teatro desde los años 50. Y poco más.
Otros temas adicionales os pondré en esta web. Lo no visto en clase no será objeto de TEMA en el examen, aunque podría caer alguna pregunta corta sobre estas cuestiones.
Nuestro siguiente autor será George Bernard Shaw. Aquí una película sobre una obra que entra en el programa, Pygmalion:
Si no conocéis el musical clásico basado en esta obra, My Fair Lady, deberíais. Aquí está en una lista de reproducción.
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My Fair Lady. Dir. George Cukor. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel. Photog. Harry Stradling. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, from their musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Music supervisor André Previn. Scenery & prod. des. Cecil Beaton. Prod. Jack L. Warner, Panavision. Warner Bros., 1964.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWed1BIUebqMEkQjPzTm6hGMELDHW3b0k
De principios del siglo XX, el autor más importante es Bernard Shaw. Aquí hablan de él sus conocidos: Biography in Sound - Bernard Shaw.
A dense lecture on Shaw:
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
____, ed. Fabian Essays on Socialism. 1889.
_____. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. Dramatic theory. 1891.
_____. Widowers' Houses. Drama. 1892.
_____. Mrs Warren's Profession. Drama. 1893.
_____. Arms and the Man. Drama. Prod. 1894.
_____. Theatre reviews in The Saturday Review. 1895-98. Collected as Our Theatres in the Nineties. 3 vols. 1932.
_____. The Devil's Disciple. Drama. Prod. New York, 1897, pub. 1901.
_____. Your Never Can Tell. Drama. Pub. 1898, 1st prod. by Grein's Stage Society, 1899.
_____. Caesar and Cleopatra. Drama. Pub. 1901, 1st prod. Berlin, 1906.
_____. Candida. Drama. 1895. 1898.
_____. Man and Superman. Drama. Pub. 1903, rev. 1905, prod. 1905.
_____. John Bull's Other Island. Drama. Prod. 1904. Pub. New York, 1907.
_____. Major Barbara. Drama. 1905. 1907.
_____. Getting Married. Drama. Prod. 1908, pub. Berlin, 1910.
_____. Androcles and the Lion. Drama. Pub. Berlin 1912, prod. Hamburg, 1913.
_____. Pygmalion. Drama. Prod. Vienna, 1913; pub. Berlin, 1913.
_____. Heartbreak House. Drama. 1913-16. Prod. New York, 1919; pub. New York, 1919.
_____. Misalliance. Drama. 1914.
_____. Back to Methuselah. Drama. Prod. and pub. New York, 1921.
_____. St Joan. Drama. Prod. New York, 1923, pub. 1924.
_____. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Essay. 1928.
_____. The Apple Cart: An Interlude. Drama. Prod. Warsaw, 1929. Pub. Berlin, 1929.
_____. Too True to Be Good. Drama. Prod. Boston, 1932. Pub. Berlin, 1932.
_____. The Millionaress. Drama. 1936.
George Bernard Shaw, major British dramatist, b. Dublin; l. London 1876-; Failed novelist, then journalist, art critic, book and theatre reviewer, anti-Romantic, advocate of social realism; member of the Fabian society, activist pro radical social and political reforms, pro-feminist, Socialist, advocate of spelling reform; vegetarian, teetotaller. Wilful defender of Stalinist communism and totalitarian régimes, advocated social euthanasia of "useless" people. Married in a sexless marriage to feminist Charlotte Payne-Townshend 1898; platonic love affairs with several married women. World famous realist dramatist; Nobel Prize for Literature 1925. Director of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English from 1934.
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Bernard Shaw: NIVEL AVANZADO
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Teatro irlandés del siglo XX:
(después de Goldsmith, de Boucicault, de Shaw...)
SEAN O'CASEY (1880-1965)
O'Casey, Sean. Juno and the Paycock. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Shadow of a Gunman. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Plough and the Stars. Drama. 1926.
_____. The Silver Tassie. Drama. 1928.
_____. Windfalls. 1934.
_____. Red Roses for Me. Drama. 1943.
_____. The Bishop’s Bonfire. 1955.
Sean O'Casey:
- Una película de Hitchcock sobre Juno and the Paycock.
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (1871-1909)
Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World. Drama. 1907.
_____. Riders to the Sea. 1904.
_____. Riders to the Sea. Drama. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Arnold, 1997. 1205-13.*
_____. Deirdre of the Sorrows. Drama. (Based on the legendary Irish princess).
_____. In the Shadow of the Glen.
_____. The Well of the Saints.
_____. The Tinker's Wedding. Drama. Premiere at London, 1909.
W. B. YEATS (1865-1939)
_____. The Countess Cathleen. Drama. 1892. (Based on Irish legend).
_____. Crossways. Poems. 1892. In Collected Poems 7-29.
_____. The Rose. Poems. 1893. In Collected Poems 31-57.
_____. The Land of Heart's Desire. Drama. 1894.
_____. The Wind among the Reeds. Poems. 1899.
_____. The Green Helmet and Other Poems. 1910.
_____. Deirdre. Drama. 1906. (On the Irish legendary princess).
_____. The Wild Swans at Coole. Poems. 1919.
_____. The Tower. Poems. 1928
_____. Calvary. Drama. 1929.
_____. At the Hawk's Well. Drama.
W. B. Yeats, Anglo-Irish poet; b. Sandymount, Dublin; son of painter J. B. Yeats; l. London 1874-83; l. Dublin / London / Sligo; associated to Irish revival in late 19th, then Modernist poet; supersititious believer in occultism and magic, anti-bourgeois aristocratic ideals, in love with Maud Gonne but rejected; married a "psychic" wife 1917; Irish Free State senator allied to interest of Protestant landed classes, friend of Lady Gregory, lived in a tower in her land; promoter of the Irish National Theatre; Nobel Prize for Literature.
James Joyce. Exiles. Drama. 1st performed 1919.
British drama, early 20th c.:
Main actors and producers: William Archer, Harvey Granville-Barker, F. R. Beenson, William Poel, Gordon Craig, Vesta Tilley, Oswald Stoll.
Cicely Hamilton, How the Vote Was Won. 1909. (With 'Christopher' St John)
____. Diana of Dobson's. 1908.
Harley Granville-Barker. The Voysey Inheritance. 1905.
John Galsworthy. Strife. 1909.
_____. Justice. 1910.
Stephen Phillips. Herod. 1900.
_____. Ulysses. 1902.
_____. Paolo and Francesca. 1902.
James Barrie. The Admirable Crichton. 1902.
_____. Peter Pan. 1904.
Oswald Stoll (prod.) C'est Chic,
_____. Cachez-ça.
_____. Hullo!
_____. Rag-Time! (all 1912-13)
Modernist dramatists:
D. H. Lawrence
_____. A Collier's Friday Night. Drama. c. 1909, pub. 1934.
_____. The Daughter-in-Law. Drama. 1912.
_____. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Drama. 1914, London perf. 1926.
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
_____. The Waste Land. Poem. 1922.
_____. Sweeney Agonistes. Drama. 1932.
_____. Murder in the Cathedral. Drama. 1936.
_____. The Family Reunion. Drama. 1939.
_____. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Children's book. 1939.
_____. Four Quartets. Poems. 1943.
_____. The Cocktail Party. Drama. 1949.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, US/British poet, critic and dramatist; b. St Louis; Ph.D. Harvard; st. France and Germany, l. London, bank clerk at Lloyd's; married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, expressed disgust with sex in poetry; unhappy marriage, wife with mental problems, separated 1933; married Vivien Eliot 1957; l. London; conservative social critic, influential modernist poet and critic, poetic dramatist; anti-modernist in ideas, "classicist, anglo-Catholic and monarchic"; w. as poetry ed. for Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber; major influence on English-speaking literary world; Order of Merit 1948; Nobel Prize for Literature 1949; d. London.
NIVEL AVANZADO: TS Eliot: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
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Seguimos añadiendo cosas en El Gran Teatro del Mundo.
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Unas notas de Andrew Sanders sobre el teatro de entreguerras, de los años 10 a los 40. Consultad también vuestros otros manuales de literatura inglesa.
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J. B. PRIESTLEY (1894-1984)
Priestley, J. B. Dangerous Corner. Drama. 1932. (On the radio).
_____. Time and the Conways. Drama. 1937.
_____. I Have Been Here Before. Drama. 1938.
_____. When We Are Married. Comedy. 1938.
_____. Johnson Over Jordan. Drama. 1939.
_____. They Came to a City. Drama. 1943.
_____. The Linden Tree. Drama. 1947.
_____. An Inspector Calls. Drama. 1947.
- A BBC radio version of Time and the Conways.
- Unas notas sobre TIME AND THE CONWAYS.
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J B Priestley - NIVEL AVANZADO
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NOËL COWARD (1899-1973)
Coward, Noël. The Year of Grace. Drama. 1928.
_____. Bitter-Sweet. Musical comedy. 1929.
_____. Private Lives. Comedy. 1930.
_____. Cavalcade. Drama. 1934.
R. C. SHERRIFF
_____. Journey's End. 1928.
Unas notas sobre Noël Coward.
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Nivel avanzado:
Present Laughter, by Noël Coward, a comedy about acting:
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