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Book The Provoked Wife

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  • Author : Vanbrugh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1808
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Provoked Wife written by Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provoked Wife  Comedy in Five Acts

Download or read book The Provoked Wife Comedy in Five Acts written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provoked Wife

Download or read book The Provoked Wife written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provok d Wife

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  • Author : John Vanbrugh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1770
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book The Provok d Wife written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provoked Wife     As Performed at the Theatre Royal  Covent Garden  Printed     from the Prompt Book  With Remarks by Mrs  Inchbald

Download or read book The Provoked Wife As Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden Printed from the Prompt Book With Remarks by Mrs Inchbald written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provoked Wife

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  • Author : John Vanbrugh
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780719015267
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book The Provoked Wife written by John Vanbrugh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relapse

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  • Author : Vanbrugh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1735
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Relapse written by Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Old Wife s Tale

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  • Author : George Peele
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2014-06-13
  • ISBN : 1408144611
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book The Old Wife s Tale written by George Peele and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mermaids are modern-spelling, fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

Book Fatal Desire

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  • Author : Jean I. Marsden
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501728520
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Fatal Desire written by Jean I. Marsden and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience. Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period.

Book Catalogue of the London library   With

Download or read book Catalogue of the London library With written by Robert Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare

Download or read book Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare written by Adrian Howe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing. Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called ‘heat of passion’ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged ‘infidelity’ would ‘end the culture of excuses’. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformers’ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murder’s age-old concession to ‘human frailty’ in ‘red mist’ rage cases, this book charts passion’s progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneously, Shakespeare set about querying culturally inscribed excuses for femicide in his plays, Titus Andronicus and Othello. This book will appeal to feminist and socio-legal scholars, criminologists and those working in the fields of law and literature, legal theory and Shakespeare studies. More widely, it will appeal to anyone interested in so-called ‘crimes of passion’.

Book English Literature

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  • Author : Hayden Spencer
  • Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
  • Release : 2018-08-20
  • ISBN : 1839472952
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book English Literature written by Hayden Spencer and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-Century English Literature associates evolving seventeenth-century English perspectives of maternal support to the ascent of the cutting edge country, particularly in the vicinity of 1603 and 1675. Maternal sustain increases new noticeable quality in the early current social creative ability at the exact minute when England experiences a noteworthy change in perspective-from the customary, dynastic body politic, composed by natural bonds, to the post-dynastic, present day country, included representative and full of feeling relations. The book likewise exhibits that moving early present day points of view on Judeo-Christian relations profoundly educate the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal support and the country, particularly on account of Milton. Encircled by an understanding that the very idea of what characterizes the human is regularly impacted by Renaissance and early present day messages, this book sets up the start of the scholarly improvement of the evil frame into an adapted shape in the seventeenth century. This advancement is fixated on characters and verse of four seventeenth-century journalists: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the verse of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode.

Book The British Drama  Comedies  2 v

Download or read book The British Drama Comedies 2 v written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 2642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of quotations past and present. The eighth edition is a vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate answer to the question, 'Who said that?' Find that half-remembered line in a browser's paradise of over 20,000 quotations, comprehensively indexed for ready reference. Lord Byron may have taken the view: 'I think it great affectation not to quote oneself', but for the less self-centred the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations provides a quote for every occasion from the greatest minds of history and from undistinguished characters known only for one happy line. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research programme and unique language monitoring, over 700 new quotations have been added to this eighth edition from authors ranging from St Joan of Arc and Coco Chanel to Albrecht Dürer and Thomas Jefferson. New sayings from across the ages include 'It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish' (the classical writer Heraclitus), 'Fight on, and God will give the Victory' (the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison), and 'The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed' (the writer William Gibson).

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Plays

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.

Book Character Sketches of Romance  Fiction and the Drama

Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance Fiction and the Drama written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: