Download or read book George Farquhar written by David Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar's works as documents of migration and the fragmented identity that resulted. Told in reverse chronological order, beginning with Farquhar's last and best-known works, it reveals previously undiscovered material about his life and connections. Born in Londonderry, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer.

Download or read book A Critical Old spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin Q 1662 written by Joanna Udall and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare 'Apocrypha'. The play is an imaginative re-working of the story of Merlin the Magician and his part in the struggle against the Saxon invasion of Britain. It contains not only scenes of love, war, and court politics, but a devil, a clown, and an unusual number of spectacular stage effects. This edition seeks to provide contexts for the play's diverse elements (chronicle history, romance, spectacle, and comedy), and considers its relationships with a wide variety of texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English prose Brut to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Download or read book Biographia Dramatica Or A Companion To The Playhouse written by David Erskine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Biographia Dramatica Or A Companion to the Playhouse written by Baker and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographia Dramatica Or a Companion to the Playhouse Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs Original Anecdotes of British and Irish Dramatic Writers Together with an Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the British Stage written by David Erskine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh Note as to the text Introduction Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh s life List of editions Main authorities The relapse The provok s wife A short vindication of The relapse and The provok d wife written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh Note as to the text Introduction Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh s life List of editions Main authorities The relapse The provok d wife v 2 sop pt I II The pilgrim The false friend The country house v 3 The confederacy The mistake A journey to London The provok d husband v 4 The preface Introduction The letters written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh Note as to the text Introduction Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh s life List of editions Main authorities The relapse The provok d wife A short vindication of The relapse and The provok d wife written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh Note as to the text Introduction Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh s life List of editions Main authorities The relapse The provok d wife A short vindication of The relapse and The provok d wife written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paratext Printed with New English Plays 1660 1700 written by Robert D. Hume and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Download or read book Obituary Prior to 1800 written by Sir William Musgrave and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographia Dramatica Or A Companion to the Playhouse Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs and Original Anecdotes of British and Irish Dramatic Writers from the Commencement of Our Theatrical Exhibitions Among Whom are Some of the Most Celebrated Actors Originally Compiled to the Year 1764 by David Erskine Baker Continued Thence to 1782 by Isaac Reed F A S and Brought Down to the End of November 1811 with Very Considerable Additions and Improvements Throughout by Stephen Jones In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Without God Or Reason written by Christopher J. Wheatley and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book deals with Restoration ethics and - at length - with the works of Thomas Shadwell, author of extraordinarily successful plays including The Squire of Alsatia (1688). In Squire, the hero discards a mistress with whom he has had a child, seduces the daughter of a lawyer, lies to father and guardian, and, in the fifth act, promises to reform and be a faithful husband to a convenient heiress. Modern critics have argued that Shadwell was either a fool or a knave when he claimed, in the prologue to the play, to be writing morally instructive drama. Yet - as Christopher J. Wheatley points out - in his own lifetime Shadwell (frequently a target of satire on political, religious, and aesthetic grounds) seems not to have been attacked for moral hypocrisy despite his repeated claims that drama should be morally instructive. In investigating the real reasons for Shadwell's waning popularity, Wheatley uncovers much about the history of ethics." "The introduction to this book examines the ways in which critical misconceptions about the history of ethics and literary representations of ethical beliefs hinder an understanding of Restoration literature. The first chapter posits that ethical obligation in The Squire of Alsatia is based on one's role in society. It also holds that the foundations of such a role-based ethos are custom and prudential judgments about social consequences, rather than divine law or universality of ethical principles. The second chapter examines a wide variety of sources (philosophical and theological works, courtesy books, and popular literature) to explore how a dialectical tension between traditional ethical systems and skepticism about God and reason could make a role-based ethic an acceptable option for dramatic representation to a Restoration audience." "Subsequent chapters show that an ethic based on social role and custom is consistent with the body of Shadwell's works and the didactic component of Shadwell's drama undergoes little change even after the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 that made him Poet Laureate. The book also argues that the emergent concept of "mutual love" is central to Shadwell's ethics as the force that draws gentlemen from destructive rakish behavior to their role as guardians of community stability. The last chapter examines the logical incoherence a role-based ethic generates in Shadwell's plays, particularly in the portrayal of women. Wheatley speculates that the divorce of role from obligation becomes the dominant ideology, at least as represented on the stage in the seventeenth century, and that this shift in ethical belief contributes to the decline of Shadwell's reputation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book The General Biographical Dictionary written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Companion in a Tour Round Southampton written by John Bullar and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: