Download or read book Miscellanea or various discourses upon 1 Tragedy 2 Comedy 3 The Italian 4 The English Comedy 5 And Operas Together with Epicurus his Morals Written originally by the Sieur de Saint Euvremont and made English by F Spence written by Saint-Evremond and published by . This book was released on 1686 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Selection of Choice and Valuable Old Books Offered for Sale with Prices Affixed Selected from the Stock of Pickering Chatto Ltd written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474 1700 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collections and Notes Third and final series of bibliographical collections and notes on early English literature 1474 1700 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Early English Literature Third and final series of bibliographical collections and notes on early English literature 1474 1700 written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Four Plays by Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays are filled with all kinds of satire, ranging from politics and sex to the humorous portrayals of popular Greek figures. The Clouds depicts the philosopher Socrates as a sneaky old man with a penchant for stirring up discontent and mischief. In Lysistrata, the women of Greece refuse to give their husbands sex unless they re-think their stance in the Peloponnesian War. The Frogs shows that the Greek god Dionysus bumbling around the Underworld because he misses the older and more tragic plays over the newer tongue-in-cheek ones. Aristophanes appreciated the more tragic plays, but he refused to let himself take them too seriously. He believed that the audiences needed something more in their lives than solemn tales about the Greek gods, so he made them laugh with his sarcastic and sardonic humor. He was also influential in that he revised the role of the classic Greek chorus ; most choruses were only present in the tragedies; however, he doubled the number of chorus singers and made them the voice of humorous reason amidst the comical confusion. As such, Aristophanes is remembered and praised by critics and audiences alike.
Download or read book Lysistrata and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. "Lysistrata and Other Plays" features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. This edition features wonderful translations of "The Clouds", "The Birds", "Lysistrata", and "The Frogs". The humor and satire is well-managed within the translation, particularly within "Lysistrata". The bantering dialogue within the play is hilarious from the exhortations of the women to their fellow sisters to abstain from sex with their men (regardless of their own strong, womanly desires) to the tongue-in-cheek dialogue between a teasing wife and her impatient husband, to the final division of land to be 'presented' in the form of a nude lady acting as a visual aid. "Lysistrata and Other Plays " includes THE CLOUDS. The most controversial of Aristophanes' plays, it is a brilliant caricature of the philosopher Socrates, seen as a wily sophist who teaches men to cheat through cunning argument. THE BIRDS: This portrayal of a flawed utopia called Cloudcuckooland is an enchanting escape into the world of free-flying fantasy that explores the eternal dilemmas of man on earth. LYSISTRATA: In the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War, the women of Athens and Sparta, tired of the incessant fighting between their men, resolve to withhold sex from their husbands until peace is settled. THE FROGS: Visiting the underworld, the god Dionysus seeks the counsel of the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides on how to bring good writing back to Athens. A fierce debate - full of scathing insults and literary satire - ensues between the two dramatists.
Download or read book Dyskolos written by Menander and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dyskolos, The Curmudgeon, is the only nearly complete extant play of the Athenian New Comedy. Menander, c. 342/1-c.290 BCE, was the best known among the playwrights of the day; he won first prize eight times at the Lenaia festival, held in late January, including for this play. His work was enormously influential for Roman comedy as we have it from Terence and Plautus, and for such later dramatists as Shakespeare and Molière. This play celebrates in comic mode the season, late winter, in which it was produced, the time when the ground is being broken up for sowing new crops. But its action is so trenchantly and vividly staged that it far transcends its occasion to present a timelessly relevant exploration of relationships in family and society-between brother and sister, parents and children, old and young, masters and servants, rich and poor, city dwellers and country folk. The old Curmudgeon of the title-an alternative given by an ancient source is The Misanthrope-finds that his desire for a self-sufficient existence cannot be sustained in the face of family and social necessities, while the younger people find that erotic desire and civil life cross class and family lines in ways familiar to us. The translation takes primary account of the play's marriage of colloquial language with formal and musical meter, on the conviction that English can pleasurably convey that union. I have closely observed the specific metrical patterning of the lines: the iambic hexameter, one foot longer than English blank verse, of most of the dialogue, and the longer and more elaborate lines of two climactic late passages. At least the second of these was set to music, for the one surviving stage direction, aulei, tell us that an aulos, a double-flute, accompanied the speeches, and this was probably true for the first as well. Like all plays, from Greek tragedy to the latest Broadway production, a fully vocal rendering of the play, bringing out the music and enlivening the characters as they respond to each other, is by far the best way to experience it. But it can also be read with such a performance merely imagined. In either case I hope readers will come away with an appreciation of the brilliance of this ancient but lively comedy.
