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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays
The Samarites by Petrus Papeus offers an effective blending of
gospel narrative and ancient Roman comedy, combining manner of
Plautus and Terence with the didacticism of medieval allegory and
morality plays and the poetic diction of Renaissance humanism. In
the Samarites they are the ingredients that present both moral and
doctrinal teachings related to the gospel parables of the Prodigal
Son and Good Samaritan. Papeus' work is an excellent example not
only of the early modern school play, but also of the shifting
conceptions of drama in Europe at that time. Daniel Nodes presents
a critical edition and translation of the play together with a
humanist commentary produced in Toledo by Alexius Vanegas three
years after the play's first printing in Antwerp.
This amusing approach to Shakespeare's classic dramas features the
plot of each of the Bard's 39 plays reduced to a single descriptive
sentence. For this volume Shakespeare's 39 plays are divided into
their five canonical groupings: comedies, tragedies, histories,
problem plays, and collabourations. Each single-sentence summary
will be foregrounded against a two-page spread featuring classic
artwork that speaks both to the seriousness of the play illustrated
as well as to the points made by the summary.
TC's life is a busy one, filled with the physical demands of her
job as a mail carrier and her dreams to play basketball, not to
mention the demands of her convoluted love life. Her girlfriend,
Samantha, is one beautiful and powerful woman--and a cop. Jealousy
seems to be the unavoidable side effect of their open relationship,
and though they each have a lover on the side, each fears loss and
heartbreak. Are any of them meant to be together? Is Samantha "the
one" for TC--or is her true love still out there somewhere?Jay,
TC's best friend, supports her, but he has his own issues. A jock
and a player, Jay considers himself a real ladies' man, but on the
day he meets Carly, everything he thinks he knows about himself is
called into question. Carly has only recently started living her
life as a woman, and she's got to balance her natural attraction to
Jay with her fear that he will reject her when he learns the truth.
As Jay does his best to give TC advice on her own love life, he's
got some big decisions to make himself. Is Carly his destiny? Is he
hers?Things may not always go as planned, but that's the beauty of
life and relationships--and this is especially true in The Million
Dollar Story.
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