Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not...(展开全部)

Look Back in Anger has its unarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man". ----John Russel Taylor When the play was first produced by the English Stage Company London's Royal Court Theatre, Kenneth Tynan wrote in the Observer:...(展开全部)

桑顿·怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897年4月17日－1975年12月7日）出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，为美国小说家和剧作家，是唯一的一位用文学作品和戏剧作品获得双普利策奖的人。 1897年，怀尔德出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，父亲阿莫斯·帕克·怀尔德，是一位美国外交官，母亲伊莎贝拉·怀尔德·尼文。怀尔德的父亲被分配到清朝工作，任职美国驻香港与上海总领事，因此他的童年在清朝度过。1915，怀尔德从柏克莱高中毕业，1917，他考入耶鲁大学。第一次世界大战爆发后，怀尔德参加了美国军队，在军队中中服役8个月。1926年，怀尔德获得普林斯顿大学颁发的法国文学硕士学位，同年发表了他的处女作小说《奥秘》。

This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation...(展开全部)

This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of a...(展开全部)

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He had written poems and short novels during his studies. In 1889, he became famous overnight after his first play, La Princesse Maleine,...(展开全部)

阿绍卡·莫迪，普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊公共与国际事务学院教授（Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor）。此前，他曾担任国际货币基金组织（IMF）研究部和欧洲部的代理主任。他也在世界银行、宾夕法尼亚大学和贝尔实验室工作过。莫迪在有关发展和金融项目及政策方面，为世界多个国家的政府提供建言，同时也在多个领域发表过政策和学术论文。 译者：王剑鹰，美国密苏里大学政治学博士。在中西方接受了完整而扎实的社会科学训练，主要从事学术翻译及写作。在法学、社会学及政治学等领域均有作品。

Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.