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Book The Plays of Henry Fielding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert J. Rivero
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780813912288
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Plays of Henry Fielding written by Albert J. Rivero and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of George Bernard Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have settled down for a long sleep and when the only hope for an awakening lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies, and ballad operas. By focusing on the plays themselves, Rivero tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career without burdening the reader with an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights. He provides us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.

Book Henry Fielding   Plays  Volume II  1731   1734

Download or read book Henry Fielding Plays Volume II 1731 1734 written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and the author of Tom Jones, but like his great model Cervantes, he came to novel-writing from an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, andballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur of dramatic form who sometimes also brought contemporary politics and public figures onto his stage with results even more dramatic off-stage.This volume presents nine plays from one of the most productive and successful periods of Fielding's theatre career. One of them, The Grub-Street Opera, is a ballad opera cheerfully mocking various public characters including the Prime Minister, Prince of Wales, and even King and Queen. Another, The Modern Husband, is a dark comedy attacking the cynical merchandising of sex, marriage, and influence among what passes for polite society in 1730s London. Most of the plays in thisvolume were major hits with long stage lives in repertory, including The Lottery, The Intriguing Chambermaid, and two of the great Molière adaptations of the century, The Mock Doctor and The Miser. Fielding wrote all four of those plays as star vehicles for the great Drury Lane musical actress Catherine Clive.The plays are given in critical unmodernized texts based on careful collation of the original editions, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception. All music is included, with appendices giving complete accounts of textual variation and bibliographic history for each play.

Book The Works of Henry Fielding  with a Life of the Author  Plays

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding with a Life of the Author Plays written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding

Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding written by Jennifer Preston Wilson and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Henry Fielding, though written nearly three hundred years ago, retain their sense of comedy and innovation in the face of tradition, and they easily engage the twenty-first-century student with many aspects of eighteenth-century life: travel, inns, masquerades, political and religious factions, the '45, prisons and the legal system, gender ideals and realities, social class. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the available editions of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Shamela, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia; suggests useful critical and contextual works for teaching them; and recommends helpful audiovisual and electronic resources. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," demonstrate that many of the methods and models used for one novel--the romance tradition, Fielding's legal and journalistic writing, his techniques as a playwright, the ideas of Machiavelli--can be adapted to others.

Book The History of Tom Jones  a Foundling

Download or read book The History of Tom Jones a Foundling written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Fielding
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781443817523
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Plays written by Henry Fielding and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fielding had a successful though controversial career as a playwright, which was cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship, preventing him continuing his most successful line of writing, political satire and burlesque. These three volumes collect his entire output for the stage.

Book The Works of Henry Fielding  Esq  Plays

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding Esq Plays written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry Fielding   Plays  Volume II  1731   1734

Download or read book Henry Fielding Plays Volume II 1731 1734 written by Thomas Lockwood and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and the author of Tom Jones, but like his great model Cervantes, he came to novel-writing from an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur of dramatic form who sometimes also brought contemporary politics and public figures onto his stage with results even more dramatic off-stage. This volume presents nine plays from one of the most productive and successful periods of Fielding's theatre career. One of them, The Grub-Street Opera, is a ballad opera cheerfully mocking various public characters including the Prime Minister, Prince of Wales, and even King and Queen. Another, The Modern Husband, is a dark comedy attacking the cynical merchandising of sex, marriage, and influence among what passes for polite society in 1730s London. Most of the plays in this volume were major hits with long stage lives in repertory, including The Lottery, The Intriguing Chambermaid, and two of the great Molière adaptations of the century, The Mock Doctor and The Miser. Fielding wrote all four of those plays as star vehicles for the great Drury Lane musical actress Catherine Clive. The plays are given in critical unmodernized texts based on careful collation of the original editions, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception. All music is included, with appendices giving complete accounts of textual variation and bibliographic history for each play.

Book The Works of Henry Fielding  Plays  v 5  Joseph Andrews  v 6  Tom Jones  pt  1  v 7  Tom Jones  pt 2  v 8  Miscellanies Amelia  pt 1  v 9  Miscellanies Amelia  pt 2  v 10  Covent Garden Journal  Voyage to Losbon  etc  v 11  Poems

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding Plays v 5 Joseph Andrews v 6 Tom Jones pt 1 v 7 Tom Jones pt 2 v 8 Miscellanies Amelia pt 1 v 9 Miscellanies Amelia pt 2 v 10 Covent Garden Journal Voyage to Losbon etc v 11 Poems written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of Henry Fielding  Esq  Plays and poems

Download or read book The Complete Works of Henry Fielding Esq Plays and poems written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Henry Fielding  with a Life of the Author

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding with a Life of the Author written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Errors and Reconciliations

Download or read book Errors and Reconciliations written by Anaclara Castro-Santana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focusing on Fielding’s fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth-century, as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape.

Book The Works of Henry Fielding

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plays Vol  I

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  • Author : Henry Fielding
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781443817394
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Plays Vol I written by Henry Fielding and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fielding had a successful though controversial career as a playwright, which was cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship, preventing him continuing his most successful line of writing, political satire and burlesque. These three volumes collect his entire output for the stage.

Book The Art of Fielding

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  • Author : Chad Harbach
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2011-09-07
  • ISBN : 0316192163
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book The Art of Fielding written by Chad Harbach and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.

Book The Works of Henry Fielding

Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Comparative Study of the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding

Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding written by Isabel Foot and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: