Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Works of Thomas Shadwell, Esq
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Thomas Shadwell
Author: Michael William Alssid
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell: The sullen lovers. The royal shepherdesse. The humorists
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Thomas Shadwell
Author: Albert Stephens Borgman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Thomas Shadwell's "Libertine"
Author: August Steiger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Don Juan (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Don Juan (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The dramatick works of Thomas Shadwell [ed. by sir J. Shadwell].
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Virtuoso
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803253681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he became Poet Laureate of England, a position he held until his death in 1692. The virtuoso of the title is Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, who like many after him confuses the extent of a collection with the depth of a science. Sir Gimcrack is fascinated by the geography of the moon, the worlds in his microscope, and the possibilities of human flight. More seriously and?for Shadwell's audience?more comically, his obsession with his arrays of worms and spiders proceeds at the expense of his wife and two beautiful nieces. The play also introduces Sir Formal Trifle, a pedantic ciceronian orator and coxcomb. His character established thereafter the theatrical type of the know-it-all blowhard. Famous for its wit and high-speed changes, The Virtuoso is also a display of the prestige of modern science and the pomposity of its ameteurs.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803253681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he became Poet Laureate of England, a position he held until his death in 1692. The virtuoso of the title is Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, who like many after him confuses the extent of a collection with the depth of a science. Sir Gimcrack is fascinated by the geography of the moon, the worlds in his microscope, and the possibilities of human flight. More seriously and?for Shadwell's audience?more comically, his obsession with his arrays of worms and spiders proceeds at the expense of his wife and two beautiful nieces. The play also introduces Sir Formal Trifle, a pedantic ciceronian orator and coxcomb. His character established thereafter the theatrical type of the know-it-all blowhard. Famous for its wit and high-speed changes, The Virtuoso is also a display of the prestige of modern science and the pomposity of its ameteurs.
The dramatick works of Thomas Shadwell
Author: Thomas Shadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Drama of Thomas Shadwell
Author: Don Richard Kunz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair
Author: John C. Ross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042957505X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell’s Bury Fair.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042957505X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell’s Bury Fair.