Download or read book The Pedants Return written by Andrea Barham and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot on the heels of the 2005 hit The Pedant's Revolt (which has sold over 35,000 copies in the UK and reached no. 6 in the amazon charts) comes The Pedant's Return, the latest in Andrea Barham's popular pedantry series. Aimed at everyone from pedants to know-it-alls, as well as those simply wishing to 'get it right', the book will appeal to the modern passion for factual accuracy. How many times have you encountered an extraordinary 'fact' in your everyday life that's led you to think, 'That can't possibly be true!'? Or you've heard something highly improbable and completely dismissed the chances of it being in the least bit authentic? In The Pedant's Return a great many doubts will be dispelled, as a range of surprising statements that sound as though they couldn't possibly be genuine, are, through careful and committed research, revealed to be 100 per cent correct.
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Download or read book Studio International written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moliere written by Andrew Calder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of ideas provides an important means of understanding and reinterpreting the literature of the past; and in this study Dr. Calder demonstrates the illumination that this informed approach brings to the comedies of MoliFre. In the course of this study, the author outlines a fresh theory of classical comedy which applies to the works of other French writers of the 17th century; and the historical reinterpretations of MoliFre's two most difficult plays -- Le Tartuffe and Dom Juan -- break entirely new ground.Although this is a work which specialists will admire, it is also intended to serve as an introduction to MoliFre and French classical comedy at large and will be of considerable value to younger students and readers of MoliFre in general.
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Download or read book A Critical Edition of The Comical History of Francion 1655 written by Charles Sorel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition of 'The Comical History of Francion' (1655) provides the reader with a version in modern English and compares it to the French original, 'La vraie histoire comique de Francion' (1633)" -- Introduction, p. 7.
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Download or read book Secrets of Acting Shakespeare written by Patrick Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn’t a book that gently instructs. It is a passionate, yes-you-can guide designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Patrick Tucker’s classic manual encourages trained and amateur actors alike to look to the original practices of the Elizabethan theatre for inspiration. He explores the ‘cue scripts’ used by actors, who knew only their own lines, to demonstrate the extraordinary way that these plays work by ear. This updated second edition includes: A section dedicated to the modes of address 'thee‘ and 'you‘ A brand new chapter on Original Practices and cue scripts An expanded genealogical chart, showing the interrelations of 92 different characters from the history plays A new discussion of Elizabethan acting spaces – balconies, gates, ramparts and even backstage areas Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a must-read for actors intrigued by the ‘Original Approach’ to acting Shakespeare, or for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.
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Download or read book Fedele and Fortunio the Two Italian Gentlemen written by and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of an Italian anti-comedy into an English formulaic-comedy. Fedele and Fortunio is an exercise in adapting Luigi Pasqualigo’s Italian Il Fedele: Comedia del Clarissimo (1576) into an idealized version of British cultural purity. Pasqualigo had rebelled against preceding tropes of Italian comedy by showcasing murderous and wildly promiscuous and unfaithful ladies and gentlemen, and rebellious servants. Perhaps because Percy was desperate in his youth to create extremely proper content that would lead to him being invited to officially write for court revels, Percy re-wrote Pasqualigo’s innovations back into what this comedic plot was initially designed to be. A couple of virginal gentlemen and a couple of virginal ladies exchange love-interests as they realize they cannot attain their initial desires. Their eventual marriages are attained with mischievous help from a pretense-captain Crack-Stone, a spying Pedant who fakes being in love to appear manly, and the scientific and psychologically-manipulating magic of enchantress Medusa. Percy avoided repeating these standard comedic tropes across the rest of his literary career, as he instead explored extremes of tragic infidelity in plays such as Hamlet, or extreme promiscuity in Cuck-Queans’; Fedele and Fortunio’s structural simplicity convinced Percy he had to constantly search for new formulas, vocabularies and foreign cultures to showcase. The introduction explains why the staging of this play is minimalistic to fit with the budgetary and spatial restraints of the accessible London stages. A precise explanation is offered of how scholars have come to the false conclusion that the “M. A.”/ “A. M.” initials indicate this play was written by “Anthony Monday”, and why the Percy attribution is accurate. To show the original divergences of Percy’s Fedele, original and translated excerpts are included from Pasqualigo’s Italian, France’s Latin, and Larivey’s French versions; the plots, characters and linguistics of these versions are compared and analyzed. “A deftly presented, informative, and inherently interesting study, Fedele and Fortunio will prove to be a much appreciated and valued addition to college and university library English Drama and Literary Studies collections in general, and William Percy supplemental studies lists in particular.” —Midwest Book Review, James Cox, May 2022 Exordium Plot and Staging J. Johnson’s Introductions (1909, 1933) Luigi Pasqualigo’s Il Fedele: Comedia del Clarissimo (1576: Italian) Abraham France’s Victoria (1588-92?: Latin: based on Dana Sutton’s Translation) Pierre de Larivey’s Le Fidelle Comedie (1611: French) Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises
Download or read book The Argonautica Book III written by Apollonius, Apolonio de Rodas, Apollonius Rhodius, Marshall M. Gillies and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius Book III written by Apollonius (Rhodius.) and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1928 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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