Author: Katharine Worth
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333446119
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Each generation needs to be introduced to the culture and great works of the past and to reinterpret them in its own ways. This series re-examines the important English dramatists of earlier centuries in the light of new information, ew interests and new attitudes. The books will be relevant to those interested in literatire, theatre and cultural history, and to threatre-goers and general readers who want an up-to-date view of these dramatists and their plays, with the emphasis on performance and relevant culture history. This book explores the reasons for the deep and lasting appeal of Sheridan's and Goldsmith's comedies, showing how they operate at the profound imaginative level and draw on their author's experience as Irish wits in an English scene. Their subtle dramatic techniques are examined in relation to physical features of the eighteenth-century stage. A chapter on sentimental comedy relates to plays such as Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy to the balance of irony and sentiment in Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man and Sheridan's A Trip to Scarborough. The continuing freshness of the comedy of mistakes, masks and Harlequin-like role playing which the two playwrights draw from the operatic and theatrical conventions of their day is illustrated from modern productions. These have helped to illuminate the psychological truth and social awareness underlying the sparkling surfaces of Sheridan's and Goldsmith's classic comedies.
Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Brander Matthews
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Author: Barbara Kachur
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333575407
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Examining the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, this book addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late seventeenth-century Britain. In addition to exploring the plays as cultural and historical texts, this study offers performance histories that illuminate ways in which twentieth-century directors have altered and interpreted these plays to make them accessible to modern audiences.
Author: Barrett H. Clark
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Author: Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911" (Introduction and Bibliography) by Montrose Jonas Moses. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Author: Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465509941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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