Download or read book The Lady Simpleton written by Lope de Vega and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Simpleton written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays Extravagant written by Dan Laurence and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-11-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".
Download or read book The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emigration office at a tropical port in the British Empire. The office is an annex of the harbor and customs sheds on one side and of the railway station on the other. Placards direct passengers TO THE CUSTOMS and TO THE TRAINS through the open doors right and left respectively. The emigration officer, an unsatisfactory young man of unhealthy habits, is sitting writing at his table in the middle of the room. His clerk is at a standing desk against the wall on the customs side. The officer wears tropical clothes, neither too tidy nor too clean. The clerk is in a shabby dark lounge suit...a scream cut short by a splash. The E. O. sits down at the table and attacks the remains of the feast ravenously.
Download or read book The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons written by William Alexander Clouston and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1888 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Alexander Clouston (1843-1896) was a famous British Folklorist. He contributed to valuable studies combining Eastern traditional literature with Norse and Western Folklore. His works include: The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies (1888), Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers (1890) and Book of Wise Sayings (1893). "LIKE popular tales in general, the original sources of stories of simpletons are for the most part not traceable. The old Greek jests of this class had doubtless been floating about among different peoples long before they were reduced to writing. The only tales and apologues of noodles or stupid folk to which an approximate date can be assigned are those found in the early Buddhist books, especially in the "J? takas, " or Birth-stories, which are said to have been related to his disciples by Gautama, the illustrious founder of Buddhism, as incidents which occurred to himself and others in former births, and were afterwards put into a literary form by his followers. "
Download or read book The Simpleton The Six and The Millionairess written by Bernard Shaw and published by London, Constable. This book was released on 1936 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millionairess: tells the story of Epifania, a spoilt heiress, and her search for a suitor.
Download or read book The Law and the Lady written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Variety written by and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fragmentary comedy about the corruption of the judicial and monarchical systems in charge of granting aristocratic titles based on appearance instead of merit. This comedy includes several devices that are uniquely typical of Jonson’s authorial style, including the extraordinary number of five marriages in the resolution, and the intricate descriptions of the significance of outward appearance (in dance, clothing, makeup and gossip) in distinguishing anybody in Britain as superior or inferior. At the onset of the plot, Sir William is hoping to marry the wealthy-widow, Lady Beaufield, to gain access to her fortune. In parallel, Simpleton’s wealthy-widow Mother is hoping to marry a knight so she can gain the aristocratic title of a Lady. Meanwhile, Simpleton is courting Beaufield’s daughter, Lucy, who clearly favors her other suitor, Newman. Simpleton devises several schemes to win an advantage by hiring jeerers to ridicule Newman, as well as hiring Voluble to give Newman a false prophecy to manipulate him toward whoring and drinking. By the end, Simpleton even attempts to kidnap Lucy to force her into marriage. In the background of these various courtships, the French dance teacher, Galliard, is tutoring his wealthy students in dance. And Voluble and Nice are teaching proper manners, dress and other outward signs of aristocratic breeding in their Female Academy. These seemingly silly and pretty tropes are clouding the fact that Galliard confesses he has escaped being executed for attempting to overthrow the French King in 1632, and Voluble is repeatedly accused of witchcraft. More importantly, the narrative explains the corrupt process that was involved in bribing judges and administrators into allowing a wealthy gentry landowner, like Mother, to purchase her way into the aristocracy through a vacant baronet title. Mother merely has to choose between going through the ladyfying schooling herself, or completely negating her burden by hiring an actress, such as Nice (the chambermaid), to pretend to be her in public appearances. The dialogue refers to several people who were granted aristocratic titles by this corrupt process, starting with the 1st Lord of Lorne of Scotland in 1439, and as late as the Duke of Buckingham in 1623. Many of the contextual references mention the Percys’ Northumberland estate’s Scottish neighbors, as well as other Percy-associated places and people in the Buckingham Palace and Newcastle; thus, this play is likely to have been closeted by Percy until after his death because Jonson was criticizing the Percys’ involvement in these title-purchasing schemes. Percy (as the primary ghostwriter) and Jonson (as the secondary) had written about knighthood-purchasing and James I’s trade in titles to his Scottish and Scottish-adjacent comrades in Eastward Ho! These frank confessions about corruption in the monarchy led to Jonson’s temporary imprisonment in 1605. This volume includes translations of all of Jonson’s authentic letters. These include the letter he wrote in 1605, during this Eastward imprisonment, wherein Jonson asks Percy to help free him from being implicated in seditious remarks that he claims were Percy’s portion of the composition. The annotations across Variety provide a myriad of scholarly revelations, supported with precise evidence. One of these is new proof for the misdating for several antique-like forgeries of broadsheet ballads. Introductory sections explain why this play has been mis-attributed to “William Cavendish”, and the complex biographical overlaps between the Jonson and “John Donne” bylines and handwriting styles. The historical introduction to the types of dance-instructors Variety is satirizing is assisted by the translation from French into English of fragments from Apologie de la Danse or Apology for the Dance by “Par F. de Lauze” (1623). Acronyms and Figures Exordium Plot and Staging The Letters of Ben Jonson and “John Donne” “Francois de Lauze’s” Apology for the Dance (1623) Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises
Download or read book The Lady of Lynn written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the Georgian era, a nefarious plot is hatched against a perfectly innocent young woman, heiress to a merchant ship owner's fortune, by a pair of amoral aristocrats who scheme to marry her off as a means to steal away her vast wealth and jewels.
Download or read book Peg Woffington Christie Johnstone etc and a Simpleton written by Charles Reade and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book The Lady s Realm written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 365 Fairy Tales written by Om Books Editorial Team and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic collection of 365 fairy tales about princesses and fairies, castles and knights, talking animals and mischievous elves – enter a wondrous land of magic and fantasy. A delightful new story every day for the whole year!
Download or read book Lady Rose s Secret written by Beverley Oakley and published by Sani Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage was not the intended outcome when loyal and determined Miss Rose Chesterfield made a wager with London’s most eligible rake not to call in a debt that would ruin her family. Ashley Delacroix, Viscount Rampton is practised at resisting the lures of scheming debutantes to get him to the altar, which is why he only consorts with beautiful widows and willing matrons. When irresistible Lady Chesterfield indicates she’s prepared to barter her wares for the short time she’s in England in return for not calling in a ticklish debt, Rampton eagerly sets up the perfect seduction. But Lady Chesterfield is not what she seems and Rampton’s anger at being honour-bound to offer her matrimony is equalled only by his anger at the lengths to which Miss Chesterfield will go not to marry him. Rose, now married to the man who’s enthralled her from the moment she arrived in London, is determined to prove her worth to her new husband. But her beautiful, scheming sister-in-law Helena – the real Lady Chesterfield – is furious that Rose has ruined her plans for happiness a second time. She’s intent on orchestrating the perfect poetic justice she believes Rose deserves. And a husband full of mistrust with a penchant for beautiful matrons is just the tool for revenge she needs. Previously published as A Little Deception and shortlisted for an Australian Romance Readers' Award.
Download or read book The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emigration office at a tropical port in the British Empire. The office is an annex of the harbor and customs sheds on one side and of the railway station on the other. Placards direct passengers TO THE CUSTOMS and TO THE TRAINS through the open doors right and left respectively. The emigration officer, an unsatisfactory young man of unhealthy habits, is sitting writing at his table in the middle of the room. His clerk is at a standing desk against the wall on the customs side. The officer wears tropical clothes, neither too tidy nor too clean. The clerk is in a shabby dark lounge suit...a scream cut short by a splash. The E. O. sits down at the table and attacks the remains of the feast ravenously.The lawn of a stately house on the north coast of a tropical island in the Pacific commands a fine view of the ocean and of a breakwater enclosing a harbor, large enough to accommodate a fleet, but at present shipless. The western face of the house is reached by a terrace and a flight of steps. The steps lead down to a crescent formed by two curved stone seats separated by a patch of sward surrounding a circular well with a low marble parapet. This parapet, like the stone seats, has silk cushions scattered about it.Behind the crescent the lawn is banked to a higher level and becomes a flower garden, sheltered from the wind by shrubberies. To the west of the flower garden the lawn falls away to the sea, but not to sea level, all that is visible of the port being the top of the lighthouse. There are trees enough in all directions to provide shade everywhere. However, the raised flower garden is the centre of interest; for in it are four shrines marking the corners of a square. In the two foremost shrines two girl-goddesses sit crosslegged. In the two further ones two youthful gods are sitting in the same fashion. The ages of the four appear to be between 17 and 20. They are magically beautiful in their Indian dresses, softly brilliant, making the tropical flowers of the garden seem almost crude beside them. Their expressions are intent, grave, and inscrutable. They face south with their backs to the sea. The goddess to the east has raven black hair, a swarthy skin, and robes of a thousand shades of deep carnation, in contrast to the younger one on her right, who is a ravishing blonde in a diaphanous white and gold sari. There is a parallel contrast between the two youths, the one on the west being the younger and more delicate, and the one on his left older and more powerfully framed.The four figures give the garden a hieratic aspect which has its effect on a young English clergyman, who wanders into the grounds at the north west corner, looking curiously and apprehensively about him with the air of a stranger who is trespassing. When he catches sight of the four figures he starts nervously and whips off his hat; then approaches them on tiptoe. He has a baby complexion, and a childish expression, credulous and disarmingly propitiatory. His age is at most 24.
Download or read book The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus in the Bedroom written by Andrea Barberi and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Christs wife, Jezibellie Tutankhemen Christ, along with Jesus Christ superstar! I do know this is true, Jezibellie Christ! Its supposed to be about the coming of ages and the trials and tribulations of Pauls demise from spirituality! This book contains graphic humor and Pauls demise from the literature that boasts that he in fact wrote the Bible, when in essence here, the Divine Source Wisdom boasts that We are the ones who wrote it, through Jezibellie Christ! Superstar is about the coming of ages, the meaning of our lifetime of habits here, and lets take it down south and note that Jesus did indeed have a viable sexual encounter. We have all the ailment cures in the world. For the rest of His life though, were all in on this together here, Hes viable to have a sexual encounter with his wifey of times past, and to note this individual freely on sexual content is viable within the confines of the tomorrows affair of the heart!
Download or read book Matrimony written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
