Discovering Great Plays Lectures

Discovering Great Plays LecturesBy Leonard Peikoff 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

not some ax to grind

contrary to the interests of the American people

Euripides's Hippolytus

* The complete filmed version of Ayn Rand's play

one million people

not merely our freedom

In this riveting Q & A session

the nature of truth

such as the true meaning of wealth

there is no inherent conflict between reason and emotion

the consciousness-brain relationship

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