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Book The Cheats of Scapin

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  • Author : Thomas Otway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1872
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

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Book The Cheats of Scapin

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  • Author : Thomas Otway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 18??
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book The Cheats of Scapin written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Character Sketches of Romance  Fiction and the Drama

Download or read book Character Sketches of Romance Fiction and the Drama written by E. Cobham Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

Book Tricksters and Estates

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  • Author : J. Douglas Canfield
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813157528
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Tricksters and Estates written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration, but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known playwrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, Wycherley, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises is a standard work in its field.

Book The Cheats of Scapin

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  • Author : Thomas Otway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1760
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

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Book The Cheats of Scapin

Download or read book The Cheats of Scapin written by and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words

Download or read book A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cheats of Scapin

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  • Author : Thomas Otway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1756
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

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Book The Theatre Guide

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  • Author : Trevor R. Griffiths
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780713661712
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Theatre Guide written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provdies an anuthoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The alchemist ot The Talking Cure, the guide is both biogrpahically detailed and critically curent, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.

Book Timetables of World Literature

Download or read book Timetables of World Literature written by George Thomas Kurian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which authors were contemporaries of Charles Dickens? Which books, plays, and poems were published during World War II? Who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year you were born? Timetables of World Literature is a chronicle of literature from ancient times through the 20th century. It answers the question "Who wrote what when?" and allows readers to place authors and their works in the context of their times. A chronology of the best in global writing, this valuable resource lists more than 12,000 titles and 9,800 authors, includes all genres of literature from more than 58 countries, and covers 41 languages. It is divided into seven sections, spanning the Classical Age (to 100 CE), the Middle Ages (100–1500 CE), and the 16th through the 20th centuries. Comprehensive in scope, Timetables of World Literature provides students, researchers, and browsers with basic facts and a worldwide perspective on literature through time. Four extensive indexes by author, title, language/nationality, and genre make research quick and easy. Features include: Birth and death dates as well as nationalities of authors and other literary figures Winners of major literary prizes and awards, such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prizes, for each year Brief discussions of literary developments in each period or century, and the relationship of literature to the social and political climate Timelines of key historical events in each century.

Book Europe 1450 to 1789

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  • Author : Jonathan Dewald
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780684312002
  • Pages : 566 pages

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Book Comedy  an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism

Download or read book Comedy an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism written by James E. Evans and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue

Download or read book A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue written by Stopford Augustus Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of William Hazlitt

Download or read book The Complete Works of William Hazlitt written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Messiah

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  • Author : Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1811
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Messiah written by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: