Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326192512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326192512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Not My Bridegroom
Author: Rachelle AyalaPublisher: Rachelle Ayala
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Blogger and freelance writer Anita Leyva’s tech CEO fiancé wants her to shoot a viral wedding planning vlog to promote his AI dating app—except he’s too disinterested to go wedding shopping with her. He instructs her to hire a stand-in who looks similar to him with the aim of editing the videos. Burnt-out actor Dillon Dole found out the hard way that social media is in and soap operas are out. He runs into his college sweetheart, Anita, on the night of her engagement to find her crying in the cups alone with her girlfriends. Her newly-minted fiancé has no time for her, and she’s in need of a body double for her bridegroom. Dillon embraces the role of Anita’s prospective bridegroom, while Anita believes her viral wedding planning vlog will bring her career success as an influencer and jealous attention from her absentee fiancé. But as Anita and Dillon navigate a maze of over-the-top wedding plans, trailed by a snarky videographer and an overzealous wedding planner, their make-believe romance starts sparking something that feels unexpectedly real. Can Anita pull off a dream wedding with the right bridegroom, and will she stop pretending and discover that the best love story was standing beside her all along?
Tricksters and Estates
Author: J. Douglas CanfieldPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189659
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration, but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known playwrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, Wycherley, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises is a standard work in its field.
A Dictionary of the Drama
Author: W. Davenport AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The First English Actresses
Author: Elizabeth HowePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.
The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, Also an Exact Account of All the Plays that Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue ... First Begun by Him, Improv'd and Continued Down to this Thime by a Careful Hand
Author: Gerard LangbainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets
Author: Gerard LangbainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Author: Diana SolomonPublisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611494230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
Uncertain Unions
Author: Lawrence StonePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198202530
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. These fascinating studies reveal in intimate, often ribald, detail how men and women adjusted their sexual conduct, moral attitudes, and matrimonial plans to suit an ambiguous legal situation. Professor Stone has traced the ways in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demands by individuals for love and affection were starting to take precedence over family interests and parental dictation in the search for a spouse; the studies he has drawn from court records for Uncertain Unions enable us to see this great moral transition being played out in the lives of men and women, often in their own words. These are vivid, human histories, presented in revealing detail, by a leading historian of the family.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
