Download or read book Ten Boys Farces written by Eustace Maduro Peixotto and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Boys Farces written by Eustace Maduro Peixotto and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten Boys Farces: With an Introduction on Impromptu Dramatics The farces that follow in this little book are no more by me than is the Illiad by Homer, if we are to believe modern critics of ancient classics. They have grown up in much the same way that the Iliad grew, at first spoken many times until there came to be a set way of speaking them, and then written down. Fortunately, their origin is not as remote as the days of Homer, and we can trace it rather directly, although to acknowledge their complete authorship would involve the inclusion of so many names that this book would be mainly title-pages. These farces are for boys, and they are largely by boys. They represent boy speech, boy action, and boy psychology. Naturally, in consequence of this, they will not come up to the highest standard of excellence from the point of view of the dramatic critic. Nor do they teach lessons. Most plays that are written for boys by grown-ups try to. In other words, many people who are working with boys are so busy educating them that they forget to amuse them; they are so busy trying to cultivate their tastes that they forget that boys have tastes, and that if these tastes are not catered to there will be little progress in cultivation. Our theatrical managers know that they cannot fill their theaters all the time with problem plays and Shakespeare. The public will not stand for it. Neither will the boy stand it if his club always supplies him with plays that teach a moral. That is why many boys' clubs attract very few boys. They get the "highbrows," the boys that correspond to their elders who patronize the problem plays, but the boy in the street stays there, gets his passive drama in the nickelodeon and his active drama with the policeman as villain and himself as the pursued hero. The type of farce here exemplified furnishes an amusing substitute. They do amuse both the boys and grown-ups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ten Boys Farces With an Introduction on Impromptu Dramatics written by Eustace Maduro Peixotto and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 Ten Boys Farces written by Eustace Maduro Peixotto and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
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Download or read book Deadly Farce written by Robert M. Lichtman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the rise and fall of Harvey Matusow, a wise-guy, professional informer-witness of the McCarthy era, whose dramatic recantation led to his own imprisonment but hastened the end of the era. No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance today. Matusow was easily the most flamboyant of the professional ex-Communists, a celebrity informer who considered himself booked by Congressional committees not just to testify, but to entertain. He testified that Communists fostered loose sex, taught politicized Mother Goose rhymes to small children, and tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. He also named more than 200 people as Communists and was a prosecution witness in major criminal cases. transcripts, personal interviews, private papers, and other primary sources, most never before utilized, to describe the unusual role of ex-Communist informer-witnesses during the McCarthy era. The Justice Department kept several dozen political informers on the government's payroll to testify in hundreds of deportation, sedition, and contempt of Congress cases. Some informers achieved celebrity as the result of high-profile appearances at criminal trials and before Congressional committees. But as the era continued, instances of perjury began to appear. Harvey Matusow's sensational recantation in 1955 gave him his biggest audience yet. It led to the dissolution of the Justice Department's informer stable and ended the public's infatuation with the group. Matusow's unrepentant and at times vaudevillian appearances before the Senate red-hunting committee investigating his recantation, followed by his prosecution for perjury--for the recantation, not his original testimony--and prison sentence, mark the climax of Deadly Farce . McCarran, and Elizabeth Bentley, among many others, offers an inside, entertaining, and closely documented view of a largely untold part of McCarthy-era history. The columnist Murray Kempton described Matusow as a truly remarkable witness in the opera bouffe sense demanded by inquisitions of the 1950s.
Download or read book An Index to One act Plays written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays written in English or translated into English; Published since 1900 Cover title: Index to one-act plays for stage, radio, and television.
Download or read book The Dramatic Index for written by Frederick Winthrop Faxon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
