Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: James H. Morey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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"Book and Verse is guide to the variety and extent of biblical literature in England, exclusive of drama and the Wycliffite Bible, that appeared between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Entries provide detailed information on how much of what parts of the Bible appear in Middle English and where this biblical material can be found."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Lord Francis Garden Gardenstone
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: John Lawrence Lambe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330606360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Excerpt from Experiments in Play Writing: In Verse and Prose "With such a theme as Mr. Lambe had selected the danger was that he might spoil it by over-elaboration. He has skilfully avoided this pitfall and has produced a powerful novel. The early scenes are concerned with the moving times of the liberation of Bulgaria, and perhaps Mr. Lambe might with advantage have curtailed this section of the book. Still, to anyone but the novel reader pure and simple it is full of interest, and when the author is free of politics and plunges into his story he holds the reader's attention to the end." - Daily Telegraph. "Mr. Lambe's knowledge of the inner workings of Bulgarian politics seems to be as extensive as it is certainly interesting... Real and important contribution to the history of the Balkan Principalities." - Daily News. "Wants nothing of human interest." - Academy. "The tragical drama is as full of human as the first part of historical interest." - Publisher's Circular. "A vivid and realistic picture of social life and political intrigue." - Spectator. "This absorbing story... Were there no truth in the romance there would still be fascination; as it is there is fascination in double measure." - Christian World. "When Mr. Lambe's novel first appeared it met with unanimous approval, and now, since its revision, the story will no doubt find a new circle of readers. The author... gives us many realistic pictures which have a remarkable fascination. The story is full of deep and dramatic interest, and the novel-reader will find it engrossing." - Liverpool Mercury. "So great is the output of novels that there must be many persons capable of appreciating By Command of the Prince who have not yet read or even seen the book. It cannot, therefore, be amiss to state here in the plainest language that Mr. Lambe has written one of the most noteworthy of the first-class works of fiction which have appeared during the last few years. By Command of the Prince is the account of a tragedy which belongs to criminal history, and Mr. Lambe's great talents have been lavished upon the task of presenting real events with as little addition of fiction as an historical novel can possibly contain. The first half of this noble and tender narrative consists of an account of the later years of Prince Alexander of Battenberg and of Bulgaria. This furnishes the platform from which we mount to the heights of the moving human drama, which Mr. Lambe has constructed out of public and private accounts of all the circumstances which culminated in the great Bulgarian murder trial of 1897. The only fault of the book is that the agony is too long drawn out. In conception, in execution, and above all in intention, this is a volume of which England in general, and Cambridge in particular, may well be proud. 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.

Author: Robert Creighton Wright
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: John Lawrence Lambe
Publisher:
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Category : Playwriting
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Milton Crane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107624088
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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First published in 1951, this book assesses the use of prose in Shakespeare's plays.

Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374279127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Author: Robert Burns Shaw
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821417576
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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With its compact but inclusive survey of more than four centuries of poetry, Blank Verse is filled with practical advice for poets of our own day who may wish to attempt the form or enhance their mastery of it. Enriched with numerous examples, Shaw's discussions of verse technique are lively and accessible, inviting to all.

Author: Eleanor Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022657217X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics. Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead for the pervasiveness and accessibility of contemplative works to medieval audiences. By drawing together ostensibly diverse literary genres—devotional prose, allegorical poetry, cycle dramas, and morality plays—Staging Contemplation paints late Middle English contemplative writing as a broad genre that operated collectively and experientially as much as through radical individual disengagement from the world. Johnson further argues that the contemplative genre played a crucial role in the exploration of the English vernacular as a literary and theological language in the fifteenth century, tracing how these works engaged modes of disfluency—from strained syntax and aberrant grammar, to puns, slang, code-switching, and laughter—to explore the limits, norms, and potential of English as a devotional language. Full of virtuoso close readings, this book demonstrates a sustained interest in how poetic language can foster a participatory experience of likeness to God among lay and devotional audiences alike.