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In English
Poetry and about poetry
Where Is the Light? Poems 1955-2005.
Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry.
Dramatic Works
Collected Plays in two volumes.
Amphitryon (“Molière’s Amphitryon in a licentious translation
by Oscar Mandel”).
The Summoning of Philoctetes: in the volume Philoctetes
and the Fall of Troy.
The Kukkurrik Fables: 43 mini-dramas for all media.
The Virgin and the Unicorn: Four Plays.
Two Romantic Plays: The Spaniards
in Denmark by Prosper Mérimée
and The Rebels of Nantucket by Oscar Mandel.
Reinventions: Four Plays after Homer,
Cervantes, Calderón and Marivaux.
Fiction
Chi Po and the Sorcerer: a Chinese Tale for Children and Philosophers.
Gobble-Up Stories.
Personal essays
Themes in literature and art
A Definition of Tragedy.
Philoctetes and the Fall of Troy: Plays, Documents, Iconography, Interpretations.
The Theatre of Don Juan: a Collection of Plays and Views 1630-1963.
Translations
Five Comedies of Medieval France. With an historical introduction.
Thomas Corneille’s Ariadne, followed
by an essay on French classical tragedy.
Seven Comedies by Marivaux.
Prosper Mérimée: Plays on Hispanic
Themes. With critical
essays and notes.
Ludwig Tieck: The Land of Upside Down. With a critical and biographical
essay.
August von Kotzebue: the Comedy, the Man. With a biography and critical
appraisal.
Other translations by the author can be found in Philoctetes
and the Fall of Troy, The Theatre of Don Juan and Two
Romantic Plays.
Art History
The Art of Alessandro Magnasco: an Essay in the Recovery of Meaning.
The Cheerfulness of Dutch Art: a Rescue Operation.
En français
Théâtre
L’Arc de Philoctète.
Le Triomphe d’Agamemnon.
Amphitryon, ou le cocu béni.
Récits
Chi Po et le sorcier: conte chinois.
La Reine de Patagonie et son caniche: fables.
Poésie
