Download or read book The Spirit of English Tragedy Classic Reprint written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spirit of English Tragedy What is this world - Thy school, oh, misery! Our only lesson is, to learn to suffer And he who knows not that, was born for nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Guide to Greek Tragedy written by Lewis Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Guide to Greek Tragedy: For English Readers The present volume does not profess to be a repertory of facts and theories respecting the Greek Drama. For such results of learned and archaeological research I would confidently refer the reader to Haigh's Attic T/zeatre, or, if a German scholar, to A. Muller's and to the books there cited. My hope has been that by recording impressions made on myself by somewhat close and long-continued study of the originals, I might assist the reader of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, whether in Greek or English, to enter more completely into the spirit and intention of their works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Gorboduc Or Ferrex and Porrex written by Thomas Norton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex: A Tragedy At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign before the birth of Shakespeare (a. D. 1558) there was an English Drama and there was an English stage, but both were in a State of transition. The English people of old loved shows and plays, and the clergy here as elsewhere had skillfully turned this natural taste to account by encou raging and permitting the representation of Biblical history. For ages the religion of the nation informed poetry and literature, and thus sought to make felt its human and picturesque elements, to the glory of God or of the Virgin; hence we have the Cursor Mandi and the collections of Mystery plays, without which there would not have been in later times a Milton's Paradise Lost or perhaps even a George Her bert's Temple. The religious plays so popular down to the time of the Reformation, were dramas with actors, scenes, and a stage. We know less perhaps of the origin of their literary form than of the manner of their produc tion, but they had some influence upon other forms of the dramatic genius, though (as is contended) what is called the regular English drama did not immediately grow out of them. The desire for Show and personified ideals, animated by the new stirrings of Wycliffe, which had inspired the Vision of Piers Plowman, when touched by the increasing moral sense of the Reformation spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by Wilhelm Creizenach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare Manner in which the old quartos came into being, 84-their characteristics, 85 - Their circulation, 88 - Lost editions, 89 Prefaces, dedications, and commendatory verses, 90 - Spirit of exclusiveness there displayed, 91 - Collected editions, 93 - Con temporary attitude towards the popular drama in England, 94 Ditto, abroad, 97. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas Classic Reprint written by Paul Decharme and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas Among the many studies that have been made of this great poet the late Professor Paul Decharme's Euripide et l'esprit de son Theatre is noteworthy at once for its breadth Qf view, power of close analysis, and vigor (f presentation. I had greatly profited by the author's learned and persuasive treatment of his theme in this book, and thought that I might render good service by translating it into English; fir there are still some English-speaking students whose unfamiliarity with French bars their way to books written in that language. Professor Deckarme, with whom I had the good fortune to be personally acquainted, readily gave his consent, and continued to manifest lively and friendly interest in my under taking as it progressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Duke of Florence written by James Arthur Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Duke of Florence: A Tragedy in Five Acts To scan men's tempers, - Ours, the bitter mock, That doth refresh the spirit, which hath stooped, At Fortune's bidding, to anothers will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Faith of a Quaker Classic Reprint written by John William Graham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lectures English History Tragic Poetry written by Henry Reed and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures English History Tragic Poetry: As Illustrated by Illustrated I will endeavour in the lectures partially to notice those intervals; and I propose to extend my subject into a more remote antiquity, by taking the tragedy of King Lear as illustrative of the legendary times, and Cymbeline and Macbeth, of the Roman and Saxon periods, respectively. The nature of this subject renders these lectures literary as well as historical; and they must combine the study of those two high departments of human thought, poetry and history. Now I desire to say, at the outset, that I have sought this combination, not so much as a means of relieving the severity of historical study and making it more attractive, as because I have a deep conviction, that Poetry has a precious power of its own for the preservation of historical truth; that it can so revivify the past - can put such life in it - as to make imperishable. I have it greatly at heart to carry this deep conviction of mine into your minds, and hope to be able to show, if not by argument in this lecture, at least by actual evidence in those that follow, how a great poet may be, at the same time, a great historian. Before going further with the subject of my lecture, let me take two or three minutes to prevent some misapprehensions, which might otherwise occur. While there may be a legitimate and valuable service of the faculty of imagination in the cause of history, there is certainly a great deal that is utterly spurious and deceptive, especially in the shape of historical novels, among which the few excellent stand distinguished from a multitude that are worthless. I have no occasion to refer to them, and wish to be understood as treating my subject altogether apart from them. Again, when I state that the imagination may minister to the knowledge of history, I certainly do not mean to say, that the poetic or dramatic form is better than any other form of history, or, indeed, to make any kind of comparison between them. There is in each its own peculiar value; and so vast is the range of history, that it needs them all: it gives ample duty to every one who labours to save the memory of the past whether it be he who zealously collects authentic documents, or pores over time-worn inscriptions, or gathers unwritten traditions - whether it be annalist, or chronicler, or biographer, or historian. I allude to these various functions, not in the way of comparison, but, on the contrary, to show that no disparagement of them is to be understood, when I assert the use of the imagination in the study of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy Classic Reprint written by F. L. LUCAS and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy Romanticism, to conclude, cares for heart more than head, passion than intellect; it creates spontaneously, uncritically, unselfconsciously. It is the essence of Youth against the essence of Maturity, the Many in Greek philosophic language against the One, the Spirit of Dionysus in Nietzsche's phrase against the Spirit of Apollo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book John Webster written by Don D. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: Edited, With Notes The expurgation of the text has been managed as far as the sense and spirit of the original would allow. The greatest: care has been taken, not only to explain verbal difficulties and difficult passages, but also to introduce, in appropriate places, the views and criticisms of the best English and German commentators. The quotations marked Clarke denote the eminent names of Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, authors of the Concordance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Max Weber written by John P. Diggins and published by . This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life and work of pioneering social scientist Max Weber. Diggins connects the critical moments of Weber's life--in particular, his experience of America--to his ideas on power, capitalism, bureaucracy, and science. He argues that Weber's emphasis on such topics as rapaciousness, hypocrisy, and deception illuminate the dilemmas of modern American politics.

Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi International Student Edition Norton Critical Editions written by John Webster and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great English Renaissance tragedy—violent, powerful, unforgettable—in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster’s 1612–13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Duchess of Malfi’s themes of love, loyalty, and betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Webster’s likely sources for the play (William Painter, George Whetstone, Simon Goulart, and Thomas Beard) as well as related works by Webster and George Wither on widows, funerals, and memorializing death. A generous selection from Mark H. Curtis’s classic essay, “The Alienated Intellectuals of Early Stuart England,” tells readers as much about the character of Bosola as it does about his creator. Henry Fitzgeffrey (1617) and Horatio Busino (1618) provide early responses to the play. “Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of The Duchess of Malfi’s central themes of dramaturgy; the politics of family, court, and religion; and gender. Also included are essays on contemporary re-imaginings of the play and its critical reception over time. Contributors include Don D. Moore, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Christina Luckyj, Barbara Correll, D. C. Gunby, Lee Bliss, Rowland Wymer, Brian Chalk, Theodora Jankowski, and Pascale Aebischer. A selected bibliography is also included.

Download or read book The Tragedy written by Gilbert Moyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tragedy: A Fantasy in Verse The prince that came to woo her - happy pair The gallant knights and lovely ladies there. And there were scenes of splendor, temples, courts, The prince's palace and his frowning forts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Making of English Literature written by William Henry Crawshaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: