Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Five Comedies
Author: Plautus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872203624
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872203624
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Author: Carol Jones
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613070508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. In this version of the familiar song, the reader is asked to guess which animal comes next by looking through a peep hole.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613070508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. In this version of the familiar song, the reader is asked to guess which animal comes next by looking through a peep hole.
Representative English Comedies: A comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare (part two)
Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Very Curious and Interesting Collection of Books ... which Will be Sold by Mr. Sotheby ... on Tuesday December 18, 1821, and Three Following Days at Twelve O'clock
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: John Henry Ottemiller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Representative English Comedies
Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Goldoni
Author: Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Aristophanes: Peace
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350020230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350020230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great
Author: Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.
Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
Author: E.J.H. Greene
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888640185
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888640185
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.