Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568686
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the rhymed heroic drama. Historians remember Buckingham as an opponent who helped topple Clarendon from power in 1667, as a member of the 'Cabal' government in the early 1670s, and as an ally of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the political crisis of 1678-1683. The duke was prominent among the 'court wits' (Rochester, Etherege, Sedley, Dorset, Wycherley, and their circle); he was closely associated with such writers as Butler and Cowley; he was a conspicuous champion of religious toleration and a friend of William Penn. No edition of Buckingham has been published since 1775, partly because his work presents horrendous attribution problems. He was (probably) adapter or co-author of six plays (two of them vastly successful for more than a century) including one in French that appears here in English for the first time. He is also associated with nine topical pieces (variously political, religious, and satiric) and some twenty poems of wildly varying type. The 'Buckingham' commonplace book has previously been published only in fragmentary form. Almost all of these works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time. This edition is a companion venture to Harold Love's important edition of Rochester (OUP, 1999).

Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Alex Palmer
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781510772595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Packed with fascinating facts, Literary Miscellany is sure to please both professor and pleasure reader alike. Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered: • When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy? • Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity? • Why Are the Best Autobiographies so Embarrassing? • Why Do Some Detectives Use Their Minds and Others Their Fists? Who knew that bestseller lists and children’s books could be the source of intense controversy? Or that even the biggest writers had to scrape by, with odd jobs and inventions like the Mark Twain Self-Pasting Scrapbook? In Literary Miscellany, examine the trend of “fake memoirs,” with a list of who lied about what, and a rogues’ gallery of hoaxers dating back centuries. From epic poetry and Homer to pulp fiction and Harry Potter, Literary Miscellany, now available for the first time in paperback, is a breezy tour through the literature of today and yesterday, packed with enough interesting facts to entertain both the erudite professor and pleasure reader.

Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
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Category : Classical poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Dryden
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1268

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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