MacDonald, Robert David

Soldiers : an obituary for Geneva by Rolf Hochhuth( Book )

5 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Soldiers is a play about Winston Churchill, the monumental war leader Western civilization produced in its darkest hour. It is also a morality play that makes an impassioned plea for an international convention to outlaw the bombings of defenseless civilians. The play is performed as a play within a play

Faust : a tragedy : parts one and two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe( )

12 editions published between 1988 and 2012 in English and held by 752 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in burst from his twenties until the end of his life. He reshaped the perpetually fascinating legend, probing the nature and process of human striving and questioning the assumed divisions between the forces of good and evil. His Faust has become a landmark in world literature. Robert David MacDonald's transl

The house of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca( Visual )

9 editions published between 1991 and 2015 in English and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Story of the power struggle among the women of a noble Spanish family as they mourn the death of the paterfamilias

Tasso ; Clavigo by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe( Book )

6 editions published between 2001 and 2016 in English and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Goethe's classical verse play Tasso (1790) examines, in his own words, 'the disproportion of talent to life' and the predicament of the artist at odds with the world around him. In Clavigo (1774), a play which Goethe claimed only took him a week to write, we find the first of the double-portraits which culminates in two souls wrestling for dominion in the breast of Faust. Both these translations were premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

Summit conference by Robert David MacDonald( Book )

8 editions published between 1982 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Landmarks of French classical drama( Book )

2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Great speeches from European drama( Book )

5 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in English and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This compilation contains speeches from great works of European drama that have been translated or adapted by Robert David MacDonald, director of the Citizens' Theatre Company for over thirty years and holder of the Goethe Medal for services to German literature. His translations of over seventy works of European drama and his many original plays have been performed around the world, including productions at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End and on Broadway. The collection includes speeches from such classics as Goethe's Faust, Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro, Schiller's Don Carlos, Racine's Britannicus and many more."--BOOK JACKET

Britannicus by Jean Racine( Book )

2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the play's prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction of Troy, the deaths of her husband Hector and their child Astyanax, and her enslavement to Neoptolemos) and her persecution at the hands of Neoptolemos' new wife Hermione and her father Menelaus, King of Sparta. She reveals that Neoptolemos has left for the oracle at Delphi and that she has hidden the son she bore him (whose name is Molossos) for fear that Menelaus will try to kill him as well as her

Five plays by Friedrich Schiller( Book )

3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Five classic plays by the great German dramatist, along with two critical essays by Schiller scholars. The robbers: The story of a noble outlaw, Karl Moor, who rejects his father's values after being betrayed by his evil brother Franz. Passion and politics: A young couple's love reaches across class divides, but is thwarted by an amoral court system. Don Carlos: A young Spanish prince is frustrated by the machinations of the despotic Philip II. Mary Stuart: Tells the story of the deadly struggle between the powerful Queen Elizabeth I and the sensual Mary Stuart, deposed Queen of Scots. Joan of Arc: Dramatizes the heroic life and death of the French saint from Orleans

Phedra by Robert David MacDonald( Book )

2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide