Author: George Evans
Publisher: Foyles
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Turcaret
Author: George Evans
Publisher: Foyles
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: Foyles
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Turcaret
Author: Alain-René Lesage
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption: a society which sells off and farms out the power of taxation into private hands reaps its own harvest. Not a future nightmare but a classic 18th century French comedy. When Louis XIV's coffers were empty and the state machinery colluded with its tax gatherers to defraud itself, financiers made tremendous fortunes. Turcaret is one of these men - fingers in all monetary pies, legitimate and illegitimate, specuating wildly to increase his fortunes, loaning money at usurious rates, at the same time aspiring towards respectability through marriage and nobility.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption: a society which sells off and farms out the power of taxation into private hands reaps its own harvest. Not a future nightmare but a classic 18th century French comedy. When Louis XIV's coffers were empty and the state machinery colluded with its tax gatherers to defraud itself, financiers made tremendous fortunes. Turcaret is one of these men - fingers in all monetary pies, legitimate and illegitimate, specuating wildly to increase his fortunes, loaning money at usurious rates, at the same time aspiring towards respectability through marriage and nobility.
The New Turcaret: Theater in the Novels of Balzac
Author: Theodora Norwich Kempster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004653015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004653015
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Ellingtonia
Author: W. E. Timner
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0585040842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
More than a discography, this book compiles the complete recorded music of Duke Ellington and his sidemen, including studio recordings, movie soundtracks, concerts, dance dates, radio broadcasts, telecasts, and private recordings, creating an easy to use reference source for Jazz collectors and scholars.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0585040842
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
More than a discography, this book compiles the complete recorded music of Duke Ellington and his sidemen, including studio recordings, movie soundtracks, concerts, dance dates, radio broadcasts, telecasts, and private recordings, creating an easy to use reference source for Jazz collectors and scholars.
Ventus
Author: Karl Schroeder
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812576351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Science fiction roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812576351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Science fiction roman.
Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity
Author: Ellen R. Welch
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823379704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism. Yet this process of centrali-zation depended on the creation of strong infrastructures connecting France's seat of political and cultural power to the provinces and the rest of the world: an efficient postal system, Europe's largest network of foreign embassies, trade links stretching to Asia and the Americas. How might a focus on these networks – and on the agents, materials, concepts, and practices that constituted them – broaden our mental topo-graphy of seventeenth-century French culture? This question animated a rich discussion during the May 2014 conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The present volume represents a selec-tion of the contributions to the conference.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823379704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism. Yet this process of centrali-zation depended on the creation of strong infrastructures connecting France's seat of political and cultural power to the provinces and the rest of the world: an efficient postal system, Europe's largest network of foreign embassies, trade links stretching to Asia and the Americas. How might a focus on these networks – and on the agents, materials, concepts, and practices that constituted them – broaden our mental topo-graphy of seventeenth-century French culture? This question animated a rich discussion during the May 2014 conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The present volume represents a selec-tion of the contributions to the conference.
The Theatre
Author: Clement Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538106167
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538106167
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Classical Monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw: Women : from the Restoration to Bernard Shaw
Author: Leon Katz
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557836151
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Contains over 250 monologues that cover over two thousand years of theatrical history.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557836151
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Contains over 250 monologues that cover over two thousand years of theatrical history.