| La Ronde Contributor(s): Schnitzler, Arthur (Author), Rudall, Nicholas (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1566638461 ISBN-13: 9781566638463 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 832.8 |
| LCCN: 2009034113 |
| Series: Plays for Performance |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.58" W x 8.54" (0.36 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published for private circulation in Vienna in 1900, Arthur Schnitzler's famous play looks at the sexual morality and class ideology of his day through a series of sexual encounters between pairs of characters. When published publicly in 1903, it became an immediate best-seller, scandalized Viennese society, and a year later was censored. Schnitzler was accused of pornography and worse. In 1922 Freud wrote to him that "you have learned through intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." By choosing characters across the social spectrum, La Ronde offers a powerful view of how sexual contact transgresses boundaries of class. Nicholas Rudall's new translation sensitively captures the language distinctions of the representative characters in the play while providing a remarkably playable script. New in the Plays for Performance series. |