
Miss Purdy's Class
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Love and Splendor (1896) by Hermina Tomić is a three-act play published in the Entertainment Library of the Croatian National Library. The work deals with themes of love, social norms, and moral conflicts in bourgeois society at the end of the 19th centur
In the comedy Pokondirena tikva, the main character Fema, an ordinary citizen obsessed with the upper class, comically tries to play the role of a lady. The play mocks snobbery, hypocrisy, and the desire for someone else's appearance and manners.
The book is a collection of three plays by one of the most performed contemporary playwrights, whose works have been translated into over 40 languages and performed in more than 450 premieres around the world.
The story takes place on a country estate where a group of characters from different social classes gather, faced with boredom, unfulfilled ambitions, and emotional voids.
Pastoral drama (comedy) in five acts, written in double-rhymed twelve-line stanzas (with eight-line stanzas in the lyrical parts), the oldest preserved play by Držić (premiered in 1548 in Dubrovnik, printed in 1551 in Venice).
Since the play Three Sisters was written in the second half of the 19th century, it rightly carries with it certain motifs and an atmosphere that runs through most literary works of that period.