Download or read book The Little French Lawyer written by Francis Beaumont and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Little French Lawyer" is a comedic play co-authored by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, believed to have been first performed in the early 17th century. Set in France, the play follows the misadventures of a cunning French lawyer named Cleremont, who is known for his crafty and manipulative ways. The plot revolves around Cleremont's efforts to outsmart and manipulate various characters for personal gain. He becomes embroiled in a complicated love triangle involving a wealthy heiress, Isabella, and her suitors. Using his wit and cunning, Cleremont orchestrates a series of humorous and farcical situations, leading to unexpected twists and turns. As the play unfolds, Cleremont's schemes are eventually exposed, and he finds himself outwitted by his own cleverness. However, true love prevails in the end, and the characters find happiness despite Cleremont's meddling.
Download or read book The Sea Voyage written by John Fletcher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Voyage is a late Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The play is notable for its imitation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The play begins with a storm, and features a desert island and castaways at a banquet, just as in The Tempest. In addition to Shakespeare's play, the collaborators consulted recent accounts of actual explorations, including those of William Strachey and John Nicoll. Along with Fletcher's The Island Princess, The Sea Voyage has attracted the attention of some late twentieth century critics and scholars as part of the literature of colonialism and anti-colonialism.
Download or read book The Double Marriage written by John Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1717 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists written by Ton Hoenselaars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Download or read book The Woman Hater written by John Fletcher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman Hater, or, The Hungry Courtier is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. One of the earliest of their collaborations, it was the first of their plays to appear in print, in 1607. Critics have commented on the play's curious juxtaposition of two unrelated portrayals of obsessive psychology. In the main plot, Gondarino is a dedicated misogynist who strives to avoid any and all contact with women. The primary subplot traces Lazarello's obsessive quest for, of all things, a really nice piece of fish. "Beaumont juggles four plots with considerable ease, offering a bit of something for everyone: farce, bawdy wit, court satire, and a 'high' romantic plot."
Download or read book Documents of Performance in Early Modern England written by Tiffany Stern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider all the papers created by authors and theatres by the time of the opening performance, recovering types of script not previously known to have existed. With chapters on plot-scenarios, arguments, playbills, prologues and epilogues, songs, staged scrolls, backstage-plots and parts, it shows how textually distinct production was from any single unified book. And, as performance documents were easily lost, relegated or reused, the story of a play's patchy creation also becomes the story of its co-authorship, cuts, revisions and additions. Using a large body of fresh evidence, Documents of Performance in Early Modern England brings a wholly new reading to printed and manuscript playbooks of the Shakespearean period, redefining what a play, and what a playwright, actually is.
Download or read book The Tamer Tamed written by John Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew. The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the women seek to tame the men. Katherine (the "shrew" of the original) has died, and Petruchio takes a second wife, Maria. Maria denounces her former mildness and vows not to sleep with Petruchio until she "turn him and bend him as [she] list, and mold him into a babe again." After many comedic exchanges and plot twists, Petruchio is finally "tamed" in the eyes of Maria, and the play ends with the two reconciled. The play is seen to reflect how society's views of women, femininity, and "domestic propriety" were beginning to change. It is said that Fletcher wrote this play to attract Shakespeare's attention - the two went on to collaborate on at least three plays together. This brand new New Mermaid edition offers unique and fresh insight into the critical interpretation of the play. It builds on current critical foundations (the relationship with Taming of the Shrew, gender relations etc) and suggests different areas of interest (popular associations of the shrew, the question of reputation, and a re-examination of the play's structure). as well as examining stage history and recent productions.
Download or read book The Maids Tragedy written by Francis Fletcher, John Beaumont and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
Download or read book Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare s Time 1590 1642 written by Gerald Eades Bentley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His discussion of the working conditions of professional dramatists like Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger as well as William Shakespeare rounds out the fascinating picture of the professionalism that developed in the great days of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A King and No King written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1661 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Island Princess written by John Fletcher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five men compete for the hand of Princess Quisara. She vows to marry the man who can free her imprisoned brother. But soon she faces both a conflict of faith and a moral dilemma as her idealism and beliefs are challenged beyond her expectations.
Download or read book The Prophetess written by John Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophetess is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.The Prophetess has been called "a strange and difficult play," noteworthy as almost the only work in Fletcher's canon that treats magic and thaumaturgy as a serious element, with Delphia "as a kind of a curiously feminized Prospero."
Download or read book Moving Shakespeare Indoors written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Download or read book The Queen of Corinth written by John Fletcher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen of Corinth is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. Modern critics have concentrated attention of the gender issues of the play: "The Queen of Corinth is best known today for its appalling sexual politics and its treatment of rape."
Download or read book The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher written by Philip Massinger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher" from Philip Massinger. English dramatist (1583-1640).
Download or read book The Custom of the Country written by Francis Fletcher, John Beaumont and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Custom of the Country by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
