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CACOYANNIS, Michael was born on June 11, 1922 in. Limassol, Cyprus. Son of the late Sir Panayotis and of Lady Cacoyannis.
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Here, dear Reader, you will find a treasure of stories (and passages from novels) all about the wild joys, the heartbreaking sorrows, the wonderful comedy, and the delightful mysteries of Love. Romantic love is the main theme of these tales, but other varieties of Love are explored: erotic love, motherly love, brotherly love, spiritual love, and friendship. This book contains 32 selections by great storytellers from many lands, including Marguerite Audoux, Honoré de Balzac, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, E. M. Forster, Hermann Hesse, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Marguerite de Navarre, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Anzia Yezierska, and many more. Also included is a passionate essay by the editor (The Meaning and the Power of Love), and three original stories by the contemporary novelists O. Thoreau and Michael Pastore. The stories that live here — in addition to being immensely entertaining — are filled with profound insights about the most essential of all the arts: the art of loving. Reading The Zorba Anthology of Love Stories is the next best thing to loving and being in love.
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Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his finest tragedies: Medea, the abandoned wife, who murders her own children; The Phoenician Women, a further twist in the story of Oedipus and Jocasta; and Bacchae, a macabre and complex play, about the power and irrationality of Dionysos. These translations are by David Thompson and J. Michael Walton. With an introduction by J. Michael Walton
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( Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrat...)
Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his finest tragedies: Medea, the abandoned wife, who murders her own children; The Phoenician Women, a further twist in the story of Oedipus and Jocasta; and Bacchae, a macabre and complex play, about the power and irrationality of Dionysos. These translations are by David Thompson and J. Michael Walton. With an introduction by J. Michael Walton
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Six Greek Tragedies, a single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women, the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different levels. The volume is edited and introduced by Marianne McDonald, Professor of Theatre and Classics, University of California, San Diego, and J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University of Hull.
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( Six Greek Tragedies, a single-volume edition of the maj...)
Six Greek Tragedies, a single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women, the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different levels. The volume is edited and introduced by Marianne McDonald, Professor of Theatre and Classics, University of California, San Diego, and J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University of Hull.
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Actor producer film and stage director
CACOYANNIS, Michael was born on June 11, 1922 in. Limassol, Cyprus. Son of the late Sir Panayotis and of Lady Cacoyannis.
Diploma, Central School Dramatic Art, London, 1944. Student, Old Vic School, 1946. Degree (honorary), Columbia College, Chicago, 1981.
Wilde’s Salome as Herod 1947, in Camus’s Caligula 1949, in Two Dozen Red Roses 1949, etc. Directed films: Windfall in Athens 1953, Stella 1955, A Girl in Black 1957, A Matter of Dignity 1958, Our Last Spring 1959, The Wastrel 1960, Electra 1961, Zorba the Greek 1964, The Day the Fish Came Out 1967, The Trojan Women 1971, The Story of Jacob and Joseph 1974. Attila 74 1975, Iphigenia 1977, Sweet Country' 1986; also a number of stage productions in Athens, New York, etc., including The Trojan Women, Paris 1965, The Devils, New York 1966, Mourning Becomes Electra, Metropolitan Opera, New York 1967, Romeo and Juliet, Paris 1968, Iphigenia in Aulis, New York 1968, La Boheme, New York 1972, King Oedipus, Dublin 1973, The Bacchae, Comedie Frangaise, Paris 1977, Antony and Cleopatra, Athens 1979, The Bacchae, New York 1980, Zorba (musical). United States of America 1983, Sophocles’ Electra, Epidaurus Festival 1983, Gluck’s Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Taulis, Frankfurt State Opera 1987, La Clemenza di Tito, Aix-en-Provence Music Festival 1988. Barrister-at-law Gray's Inn, University London, 1942.
( Six Greek Tragedies, a single-volume edition of the maj...)
( Six Greek Tragedies, a single-volume edition of the maj...)
(Here, dear Reader, you will find a treasure of stories (a...)
( Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrat...)
( Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrat...)
Producer: Overseas Service, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1941-1950. Screen & stage producer, since 1950. Actor: (plays, plays) Salome, since 1947, Caligula, since 1949, Two Dozen Red Roses, since 1949.
Director: (films) Windfall in Athens, since 1953, Stella, since 1955, A Girl in Black, since 1957, A Matter of Dignity, since 1958, Our Last Spring, since 1959, The Wastrel, since 1960, Electra, since 1961, Zorba the Greek, since 1964, The Day the Fish Came Out, since 1967, The Trojan Women, since 1971, The Story of Jacob and Joseph, since 1974, Attila 74, since 1975, Iphigenia, since 1976, Sweet Country, since 1984, Up, Down and Sideways, since 1991, The Trojan Women, since 1956, The Devils, since 1966, Mourning Becomes Electra, Metropolitan Opera, since 1967, Romeo and Juliet, since 1968, Iphigenia in Aulis, 1968, La Bohe me, 1972, King Oedipus, 1973, The Bacchae, Come die Franc aise, 1977, Anthony and Cleopatra, 1979, The Bacchae, 1980, (musical) Zorba, 1983, Iphigenia in Aulis and in Tauris Frankfurt State Opera, La Clemenza Di Tito, Music Festival Aix-En-Provence, 1988. Translator: Antony and Cleopatra, 1980, The Bacchae, 1982, Hamlet (into Greek), 1985, Coriolanus (into Greek), 1990.