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Discovering Great Plays: As Literature and as Philosophy

Leonard Peikoff

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Based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope, Discovering Great Plays provides the ability to understand, judge and savor the values offered by great drama.
Plays discussed include: Antigone by Sophocles; Othello by Shakespeare; Le Cid by Corneille; Don Carlos by Schiller; An Enemy of the People by Ibsen; Saint Joan by Shaw; Monna Vanna by Maeterlinck, and Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand. A list of recommended editions and translations is provided by the author.
Readers will discover plot-theme as the key to a play; Antigone as a great heroine; Iago as the blackest villain in literature; the Cornelian hero; Schiller’s Grand Inquisitor scene as the most dramatic and philosophic in all theater; Ibsen and Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark; Shaw’s genius in presenting the genius against society; and Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand.

• About the Author: Leonard Peikoff is the preeminent Rand Scholar writing today. He has taught philosophy at several places including Hunter College and New York University. Dr. Peikoff is author of The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West are Going Out, The Cause of Hitler’s Germany, and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Pages: 302

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ayn Rand Institute Press

Release: March 19, 2017

Discovering Great Plays: As Literature and as Philosophy

Leonard Peikoff

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Based on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff and edited by Marlene Trollope, Discovering Great Plays provides the ability to understand, judge and savor the values offered by great drama.
Plays discussed include: Antigone by Sophocles; Othello by Shakespeare; Le Cid by Corneille; Don Carlos by Schiller; An Enemy of the People by Ibsen; Saint Joan by Shaw; Monna Vanna by Maeterlinck, and Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand. A list of recommended editions and translations is provided by the author.
Readers will discover plot-theme as the key to a play; Antigone as a great heroine; Iago as the blackest villain in literature; the Cornelian hero; Schiller’s Grand Inquisitor scene as the most dramatic and philosophic in all theater; Ibsen and Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark; Shaw’s genius in presenting the genius against society; and Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand.

• About the Author: Leonard Peikoff is the preeminent Rand Scholar writing today. He has taught philosophy at several places including Hunter College and New York University. Dr. Peikoff is author of The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West are Going Out, The Cause of Hitler’s Germany, and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Pages: 302

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ayn Rand Institute Press

Release: March 19, 2017

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