Download or read book The Plays of George Colman the Younger written by George Colman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Younger. Versatile, industrious, talented, Goerge Colman the Younger (1762-1836) followed Sheridan as England's most popular playwright. He wrote not only monologues, farces, pantomimes, comic operas, and straight comedies, but also hybrid three-act anticipations of melodrama.
Download or read book Oroonoko A Tragedy in Five Acts written by Thomas Southerne and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bonduca A tragedy With alternations by George Colman the elder The second edition written by Francis Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brutus Or The Fall of Tarquin A Tragedy in Five Acts written by John Howard Payne and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alexander the Great A Tragedy in Five Acts written by Nathaniel Lee and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton written by Barry Sutcliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists. The plays have been chosen to represent the range of the two playwrights and the variety of dramatic material on offer during the period. The full-length plays and afterpieces by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton were as popular as Sheridan's works in their time, but today are seldom performed or read. This discrepancy lies at the heart of Barry Sutcliffe's extensive introduction, which explores the critical and social background to the dramatic activity of the period and relates the dramas to the shifting demands of the theatre audiences for whom these plays were written.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire written by Michael Gamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Download or read book Tancred and Sigismunda A Tragedy in Five Acts written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward the Black Prince Or The Battle of Poictiers An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts written by William Shirley (Dramatist.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Julius Caesar a Tragedy in Five Acts As Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revenge a Tragedy in 5 Acts with Remarks by Mrs Inchbald written by Edward I Young and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Earl of Essex A Tragedy in Five Acts written by Henry Jones (of Drogheda.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bluebeard written by Casie E. Hermansson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
Download or read book A Short History of English Literature written by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.
Download or read book Complete Plays of Frances Burney written by Frances Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-05-01 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the plays, as in her novels, Burney satirizes the social conventions and pretensions of her day. The Witlings (1779), her first play, is a biting satire on the Bluestockings; it was never performed, however, for fear of a possible scandal. The violent, the grotesque, and the macabre also figure strongly in her writings. Contents Volume 1: The Comedies Introduction Chronology The Witlings (1778-80) Love and Fashion (1798-99) A Busy Day (1800-02) The Woman-Hater (1800-02) Volume 2: The Tragedies Edwy and Elgiva (1788-95) Hubert de Vere (1790-97) The Siege of Pevensey (1790-91) Elberta (1791-1814) Appendix: The Triumphant Toadeater (1798)
Download or read book Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakespeare and the British Drama written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
