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Book A Sleeping Clergyman and Other Plays By James Bridie  a Sleeping Clergyman  Tobias and the Angel  Jonah and the Whale  the Anatomist  the Amazed Evangelist

Download or read book A Sleeping Clergyman and Other Plays By James Bridie a Sleeping Clergyman Tobias and the Angel Jonah and the Whale the Anatomist the Amazed Evangelist written by James Bridie and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A sleeping clergyman

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  • Author : James Bridie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 19 pages

Download or read book A sleeping clergyman written by James Bridie and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Playwrights  1880 1956

Download or read book British Playwrights 1880 1956 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.

Book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

Download or read book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.

Book James Bridie  Osborne Henry Mavor

Download or read book James Bridie Osborne Henry Mavor written by Terence Tobin and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth Century Drama

Download or read book Twentieth Century Drama written by Simon Trussler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.

Book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections

Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mr  Bridie s Alphabet for Little Glasgow Highbrows

Download or read book Mr Bridie s Alphabet for Little Glasgow Highbrows written by James Bridie and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moral Plays

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  • Author : James Bridie
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  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Moral Plays written by James Bridie and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James Bridie

Download or read book James Bridie written by Helen L. Luyben and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical analysis of twelve of the plays of James Bridie (1885-1951) illustrates that throughout Bridie's work there exists a philosophical continuity which can be traced through three stages of moral awareness and which when recognized goes far in defining Bridie's genius. Bridie, as the study attempts to show, was essentially a moralist, and his plays are in a special sense morality plays; thus his original use of religious myth is explored, particularly his use of the myth of the fall from innocence. Bridie's first play, The Switchback uses the myth of Adam's temptation and fall to tell the story of a Scottish physician's struggle to meet both self and social responsibilities. Four other plays, Tobias and the Angel, The Girl Who Did Not Want to Go to Kuala Lampur, Marriage Is No Joke, and The Black Eye, again deal with the Fall, this time with innocent Adams who remain oblivious of the demons tempting them to leave their particular Garden of Eden. The discussion of Tobias also introduces Bridie's use of the Prodigal Son story. The disillusionment of experienced Adams is studied in the late plays; the disillusioned Adam of the last Play, The Baikie Charivari, seems to be a modern-day Pontius Pilate. Aside from exploring the mythical content of the plays, Helen L. Luyben defends Bridie as a craftsman against accusations that he was a bungler. She maintains that the structure of the plays is not diffuse but carefully plotted, as is apparent in the conscious use of myth (supported by a metaphysical use of language) and in the common structural techniques found throughout the plays. As Bridie's morality goes beyond the limits of logic, so his structure disregards the limitations of realistic drama, demanding dramatic forms—farce and fantasy—which will encompass the illogical and portray a higher reality than the realistic form. Thus his language operates both on a literal and poetic plane. Finally, Bridie's moral affinity with Shaw and Ibsen is explored, not with the intention of tracing literal borrowing, but to clarify Bridie's philosophical and dramatic intention.

Book The Amateur Theatre and Playwrights  Journal

Download or read book The Amateur Theatre and Playwrights Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Eye

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  • Author : James Bridie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1935
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Black Eye written by James Bridie and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern British Dramatists  1900 1945

Download or read book Modern British Dramatists 1900 1945 written by Stanley Weintraub and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of playwrights whose careers had reached a professional height before the 1939-1945 war, or whose lives had ended by that time.