Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521286275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums. He assigned a specially important role to women in his plays, choosing to write for the charismatic actresses of his day. Masks and Faces (1852) is concerned with the public image and private life of a leading Covent Garden actress; The Courier of Lyons (1854) is based upon a real case of mistaken identity; and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) describes the legal and financial oppression of poor English farming folk. All these plays were very popular and successful, performed and revived many times. Dr Hammet provides alongside them an informative introduction, notes on the text, a short biography of Reade, a full list of his plays and productions, and a bibliography.
Plays by Charles Reade
Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521286275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums. He assigned a specially important role to women in his plays, choosing to write for the charismatic actresses of his day. Masks and Faces (1852) is concerned with the public image and private life of a leading Covent Garden actress; The Courier of Lyons (1854) is based upon a real case of mistaken identity; and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) describes the legal and financial oppression of poor English farming folk. All these plays were very popular and successful, performed and revived many times. Dr Hammet provides alongside them an informative introduction, notes on the text, a short biography of Reade, a full list of his plays and productions, and a bibliography.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521286275
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums. He assigned a specially important role to women in his plays, choosing to write for the charismatic actresses of his day. Masks and Faces (1852) is concerned with the public image and private life of a leading Covent Garden actress; The Courier of Lyons (1854) is based upon a real case of mistaken identity; and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) describes the legal and financial oppression of poor English farming folk. All these plays were very popular and successful, performed and revived many times. Dr Hammet provides alongside them an informative introduction, notes on the text, a short biography of Reade, a full list of his plays and productions, and a bibliography.
Foul Play
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Pages : 292
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The Cloister and the Hearth
Author: Charles Reade
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Pages : 362
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Put Yourself in His Place
Author: Charles Reade
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Hard cash
Author: Charles Reade
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Pages : 586
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Griffith Gaunt
Author: Charles Reade
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Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Pages : 516
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Masks and Faces, Or, Before and Behind the Curtain
Author: Tom Taylor
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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"It is Never Too Late to Mend."
Author: Charles Reade
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Love Me Little, Love Me Long
Author: Charles Reade
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Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Pages : 554
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Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Author: Katherine Byrne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.