Download or read book Plays by H J Byron written by Jim Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences. His burlesques of melodrama helped to bring an end to the more outlandish examples of the genre; inveterate punning became his trademark. Byron was also a competent editor, theatre manager and actor specializing in the eccentric roles of his own plays. As playwright he was second only to W. S. Gilbert and Tom Robertson, whose careers he helped to further. Jim Davis has edited four of the plays, illustrating them with contemporary drawings and providing an extensive introduction.
Download or read book Byron Plays written by Henry James Byron and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Boys written by Henry James Byron and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank E. Fowle and Henry J. Byron's classic comedy tells the story of three young boys who, tired of being endlessly scolded and punished, decide to run away from home and embark on a series of hilarious misadventures. This witty and engaging play is a must-read for anyone with a love of old-fashioned comedy and charming characters. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Collection of Plays Ca 1870 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Boys a Comedy in Three Acts written by Henry James 1835-1884 [From Byron and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank E. Fowle and Henry J. Byron's classic comedy tells the story of three young boys who, tired of being endlessly scolded and punished, decide to run away from home and embark on a series of hilarious misadventures. This witty and engaging play is a must-read for anyone with a love of old-fashioned comedy and charming characters. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Gasbag written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Something Dreadful and Grand written by Stephen Watt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes beyond comparisons of their respective diasporic histories. But how does one describe this uncanny relationship, one often marked by hostility, affinity, and ambivalence, without essentializing people whose origins, class affiliation, educations, life experiences, and so on are enormously different? "Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious describes a complex allosemitism and allohibernianism through a variety of cultural texts with which immigrant Irish and Jewish Americans were most engaged: popular music of the Tin Pan Alley era, tenement literature from Anzia Yezierska and James T. Farrell through the posthumous publication of Henry Roth's An American Type, and proletarian and socialist-inflected drama by Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, and Arthur Miller as they engaged the Irish drama of such writers as Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey. In an effort to trace both the genealogy and more recent trajectory of immigrant drama and fiction, chapters explore both the post-Famine melodramatic stage of the nineteenth century and a host of more contemporary texts from newer generations of immigrants. Throughout, the book argues for a "circum-North Atlantic" culture in which texts from Ireland, Britain, Irish America, and Jewish America contribute substantially to both a modern American literature and to understandings of the terms "Irish" and "Jewish." How can we really know what these terms mean as they delimit or erase totally the differences inherent to them? Borrowing a term from psychoanalytic and political theory, "Something Dreadful and Grand" explores the larger dimensions of this Irish-Jewish unconscious underlying cultural production in America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama.
Download or read book Who s who in the Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for their theatre company or drama group to perform. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most significant plays - from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot - are dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. An index of characters enables the reader to locate favourite characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters - such as Iphigenia - through world drama, including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the plays included by a particular author.
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Victorian Drama written by Anthony Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, W. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, examined in social and political context. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women's studies.
