Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Key to the Dead Lock. Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, in the House of Represntatives for Adherence to Retrenchment, Saturday, June 17, 1876, on the President's Messege Relating to Appropriations
Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this and more, and shares it in her second volume of performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces. Carefully culled from more than two hundred extant farces, and crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers, the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery, and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social change finds its start where comedy itself begins—at home.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this and more, and shares it in her second volume of performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces. Carefully culled from more than two hundred extant farces, and crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers, the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery, and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social change finds its start where comedy itself begins—at home.
Breaking the deadlock
Author: John Bartle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526152355
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’. Since 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of representative government. The 2017 election was meant to bring closure to Brexit. It did not: its indecisive outcome merely exacerbated the challenges. Parliament, the courts and ultimately the Monarch herself became embroiled in the chaos of Brexit. The scale of the Conservatives’ definitive victory in December 2020 was therefore a significant departure and a return to the status quo. This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous election and its aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526152355
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’. Since 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of representative government. The 2017 election was meant to bring closure to Brexit. It did not: its indecisive outcome merely exacerbated the challenges. Parliament, the courts and ultimately the Monarch herself became embroiled in the chaos of Brexit. The scale of the Conservatives’ definitive victory in December 2020 was therefore a significant departure and a return to the status quo. This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous election and its aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.
Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah
Author: Mahomed Ali Jinnah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The National Review
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ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
The National and English Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Author: Roy Jenkins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466833076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are so far none. In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDR's character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of American industrial and military effort; and, all the while, he aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent catastrophe, his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor, who was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth century's greatest political reformers. Nearly complete before Jenkins's death in January 2003, this volume was finished by historian Richard Neustadt.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466833076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are so far none. In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDR's character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of American industrial and military effort; and, all the while, he aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent catastrophe, his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor, who was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth century's greatest political reformers. Nearly complete before Jenkins's death in January 2003, this volume was finished by historian Richard Neustadt.
The Century Dictionary Supplement
Author: Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The American Encyclopædic Dictionary
Author: S. J. Herrtage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Century Dictionary Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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