Download or read book The Roundheads Or the Good Old Cause a Comedy written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1682 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphra Behn The Roundheads written by Aphra Behn and published by Stage Door. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conflict. There are claims she was a spy, that she travelled abroad, possibly as far as Surinam. By 1664 her marriage was over (though by death or separation is not known but presumably the former as it occurred in the year of their marriage) and she now used Mrs Behn as her professional name. Aphra now moved towards pursuing a more sustainable and substantial career and began work for the King's Company and the Duke's Company players as a scribe. Previously her only writing had been poetry but now she would become a playwright. Her first, "The Forc'd Marriage," was staged in 1670, followed by "The Amorous Prince" (1671). After her third play, "The Dutch Lover," Aphra had a three year lull in her writing career. Again it is speculated that she went travelling again, possibly once again as a spy. After this sojourn her writing moves towards comic works, which prove commercially more successful. Her most popular works included "The Rover" and "Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" (1684-87). With her growing reputation Aphra became friends with many of the most notable writers of the day. This is The Age of Dryden and his literary dominance. From the mid 1680's Aphra's health began to decline. This was exacerbated by her continual state of debt and descent into poverty. Aphra Behn died on April 16th 1689, and is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey. The inscription on her tombstone reads: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality." She was quoted as stating that she had led a "life dedicated to pleasure and poetry."
Download or read book The Roundheads Or the Good Old Cause written by Aphrah Behn and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La. Des. Seiz'd on, secur'd, was there no time but this? What made him at the Committee, or when there, why spoke he honest Truth? What shall I do, good Corporal Advise: take Gold, and see if you can corrupt his Guards, but they are better paid for doing mischief; yet try, their Consciences are large.
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter Communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Good Old Cause written by Edmund Dell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.
Download or read book The Reformation written by Joseph Arrowsmith and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation (1673), attributed to Joseph Arrowsmith, is an amusing satire on the libertine manners of the Stuart court. A group of young men in Venice set up a society to reform sexual mores “à la mode d’Angleterre” and liberate women from the tyranny of fathers and husbands. Described by a contemporary critic as “the Reverse to the Laws of Morality and Virtue”, the play was quickly withdrawn from the stage. The comedy also offers a burlesque portrait of Poet Laureate John Dryden, poking fun at his critical opinions and dramatic production. This is the firts critical edition of the play. The editors place it in its social and cultural context and present a fully annotated text, which enables today’s reader to enjoy and understand Arrowsmith’s lively picture of Restoration life.
Download or read book Royal Loyal Sufferers written by Cecil Deedes and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The rover The Dutch lover Abdelazer or The Moor s revenge The young king or The mistake The Roundheads or The good old cause The city heiress or Sir Timothy Treat all The town fopp or Sir Timothy Tawdrey written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1702 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of William Andrews Clark Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The rover or the banish d cavaliers pt 1 The rover pt 2 The Dutch lover The roundheads or the good old cause written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works Venice preserv d The atheist Poems Love letters written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethos of Drama written by Robert L. King and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A groundbreaking approach to drama criticism*
Download or read book The Ashley Library written by Thomas James Wise and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of the author's library of 1st editions of the famous English poets and dramatists from Elizabethan times until the present.
Download or read book The amorous bigotte The scowrers The volunteers Poems etc Letters written by Thomas Shadwell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn v 6 Complete Plays written by Janet Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the sixth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.
Download or read book Charles Eliot Norton written by Linda C. Dowling and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste. This revisionary study argues that Norton’s genuine significance for American culture and politics today can only be grasped by recovering the vanished contexts in which his life and work took shape. In a wide-ranging analysis, Linda Dowling demonstrates the effects upon Norton’s thought of the great transatlantic humanitarian reform movement of the 1840s, the Pre-Raphaelite and Ruskinian revolution in art and architecture of the 1850s and the surging liberal optimism that emerged from the Civil War. Drawing on numerous deleted passages from Norton’s manuscript journals, Dowling probes beneath the imperturbable mask of the public Norton, bringing to light the elusive private man. Returning from Europe in 1873, bereft of his wife and stripped of his religious belief, Norton was compelled to confront the painful contradictions within his own liberal political faith. In a land given to celebrating freedom of speech, Norton would become a speaker subjected to physical threats for opposing the Spanish-American War. Among a people given to glorying in its superiority to other civilizations, he would become a social critic reviled for arguing that the nation was failing to live up to its own most cherished ideals. It would be Norton’s misfortune, shared with others of his generation, to watch the golden promise of a victorious war for the Union fade into the unrepentant cynicism of the Gilded Age. Yet Norton’s militant idealism and heroic citizenship, Dowling argues, survive now as a vital parable for American civic liberalism in the present day.
