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Kozma: A Tragedy by Mihály Kornis

Character list for “Kozma: A Tragedy” by Mihály Kornis A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 The final play in A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Play, Mihály Kornis’ “Kozma: A […]

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The Imposter by György Spiró

Character list for “The Imposter” by György Spiró A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 This is one of my favorite plays I have read lately and one I would love to see […]

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Stevie in the Bloodbath by István Örkény

Character list for “Stevie in the Bloodbath: A Grotesque Play in Two Parts” by István Örkény A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 Motto: This age, our parent—executioner provisioned us with a bitter […]

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Poison Damsels by N. M. Penzer

Poison-Damsels and Other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology by N. M. Penzer London: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1952 The present four Essays are based on Appendixes originally published in my edition of C. H. Tawney’s Kathā-Sarit-Sāgara, which I called The Ocean of Story. Somewhat hidden in such a large work—it ran to ten volumes—and in view […]

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After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge Emblems of Antiquity series Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780199747320 Paul Cartledge’s name has been mentioned on this blog several times—he is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics at the University of […]