Download or read book Fanny s First Play and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Fanny's first play Fanny O'Dowda, daughter of a Count of the old regime, writes a play which her father promises shall be acted by real actors and reviewed by real critics, the authors' identity of course, being concealed. As an induction, O'Dowda, the courtly aesthete of pre-Victorian days, has an interview with the very commercial theatrical manager of modern times, who cites the methods he employed to get the critics there, a colloquy of delightful wit in its contrasting values. Then come the critics, cheerful satires on the originals of London, in which more fun is poked at their pomposity and ignorance. "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" was written to aid the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre in its appeal for a public endowment" --
Download or read book Misalliance The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Fanny s First Play With a Treatise on Parents and Children written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Misalliance The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Fanny s First Play written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fanny s First Play written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fanny s First Play written by Bernar Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny s First Play written by Dan Laurence and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1994-05-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him and die game. Published in 1909, it brought Shaw into conflict with the Lord Chamberlain of England, who banned it on the grounds of alleged blasphemy, and it was twelve years before the play was performed in a London theatre. In an interview Shaw commented, ‘I am sorry that Fanny’s First Play has destroyed the cherished legend that I am an unpopular playwright ... for the first time I have allowed a play of mine to run itself to death ... And the worst of it is it will not die.’ First performed in 1911, the play is a delightful farce in which Shaw debates some of his favourite subjects: middle-class morality, marriage, parents and children and women’s rights. And, deliberately concealing his authorship, Shaw took the opportunity to satirize contemporary drama critics who, he claimed, ‘do not know dramatic chalk from dramatic cheese when it is no longer labelled for them.’
Download or read book Fanny s First Play and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from The Theatre - Volume 16 (1912): It matters not whether this play throws doubt upon its authorship, no one but George Bernard Shaw could have written "Fanny's First Play," and if one likes Shaw, here is the Shavian cynic and philosopher at his daring best. Fanny O'Dowda, daughter of a Count of the old regime, writes while at Cambridge a play which her father promises shall be acted by real actors and reviewed by real critics, the authors' identity of course, being concealed. As an induction, O'Dowda, the courtly aesthete of pre-Victorian days, has an interview with the very commercial theatrical manager of modern times, who cites the methods he employed to get the critics there, a colloquy of delightful wit in its contrasting values. Then come the critics, cheerful satires on the originals of London, in which more fun is poked at their pomposity and ignorance. The curtain draws and "Fanny's First Play" be ins. It is a satire on two smug puritanical British middle-class families. The younger representatives are tentatively engaged, but each gets into a scrape and are respectively sent to jail. The boy has yielded to the fascinations of Darling Dora, a music hall favorite, and the girl has carried on a perfectly harmless flirtation with a French naval officer. The consternation of their parents is presented with much humorous force and the various family councils provide the author with numerous opportunities for the display of his characteristic cynical observations. Nothing escapes his biting satire, convention, religion, sociology, politics, all make "copy" for him, and the result is dialogue that fairly corruscates with scintillant wit. The dénouement is particularly Shavian. The boy pairs off with Dora and the militant daughter of the house of Knox marries the family butler, who by the death of an elder brother becomes a Duke. Then follows the epilogue, more brilliant fooling at the expense of the critics, who, ignorant of the authorship, hesitate to commit themselves as to the value of the piece. For as one says: "If he's a good author, then it's a good piece; but if he's bad, then the play must be bad.".... "Fanny's First Play" is an intellectual treat. * * * * * "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets," the shorter piece, was written to aid the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre in its appeal for a public endowment.
Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books written by Marie Tedford and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The antiquarian's reference to old books features thousands of listings, including hundreds of new titles, a new Internet buying guide, a complete glossary of book-collecting terms, research resources, information on dealers, and advice on buying, selling, and maintaining fragile acquisitions. Original.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and His Publishers written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich selection of Shaw's correspondence with his US and UK publishers proves how much the dramatist lived up to his own words by providing the details of his steady involvement in the publication of his works.
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnets written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's sonnets, excerpts from some of the sonnets, and biographical information.
Download or read book Great Shakespeareans Set III written by Adrian Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Download or read book Joyce T S Eliot Auden Beckett written by Adrian Poole and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally andinternationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution ofJames Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett to the afterlife andreception of Shakespeare and his works.Each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figurecovered and of that figure on the understanding, interpretation andappreciation of Shakespeare, providing a sketch of its subject's intellectualand professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context.
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Short Plays written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1988-01-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT" "ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS" "VILLAGE WOOING" "THE SIX OF CALAIS" and "CYMBELINE REFINISHED".
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edwardian Shaw written by Leon Hugo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwardian Shaw covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the crucial first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By going to contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, particularly his emergence as a moral revolutionary and playwright of original and disquieting power, Leon Hugo depicts a man who confronted a highly conservative world and managed by the force of his genius to stamp his personality on the age.
