Author: Christopher J. Wheatley
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227879
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Part 3. Drama of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century -- John Dryden, All for Love -- William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer -- George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem -- George Lillo, The London Merchant -- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera -- Part 4. Drama of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Dion Boucicault, The Shaughraun -- John Synge, The Playboy of the Western World -- Bernard Shaw, St. Joan
Author: O. B. Hardison, Jr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9781421430461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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The sudden appearance of these elements in vernacular drama suggests the existence of a hitherto unsuspected vernacular tradition considerably older than the earliest surviving vernacular plays.
Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786437812
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he traditionally receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Shakespeare and children's interests, and the Bard's works have been successfully adapted for children's use over several centuries. This book continues and parallels the author's previous study, Chaucer as Children's Literature, as part of a greater endeavor to evaluate the significance of traditional literature retold as children's literature in modern English studies. It examines the ways in which William Shakespeare's stories have been adapted for children, particularly in Mary and Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, which was almost immediately recognized as a classic of children's literature when it was first published in 1807. The author describes the significance of the Lamb's Tales as the pre-eminent children's adaptation of Shakespeare's literature, focusing particularly on the lavishly illustrated Edwardian editions which used pictures to convey Shakespeare's stories for children. Other topics include Victorian alternatives to the Lambs' stories, including anthologies from David Murray Smith, Abby Sage Richardson, and Mary Seymour; the lavish illustrations of Shakespeare's stories found in antique English textbooks; Shakespeare in nursery books, including sophisticated collections from Mary Macleod, Thomas Carter, Alice S. Hoffman, and other noted authors; and Shakespeare in multi-volume American collections, including The Children's Hour, Journeys through Bookland, and The Junior Classics.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Author: Stephen J. Vicchio
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498276563
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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In this second of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the Job traditions as interpreted in the period of the Middle Ages--in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. From the Vulgate to the Qur'an, from Maimonides to Calvin, Vicchio addresses the complexities of the "reception history" of intriguing work. Two appendices address how Job has been treated throughout history in literature, in drama, and in medicine. Volume 1: Job in the Ancient World Volume 2: Job in the Medieval World Volume 3: Job in the Modern World
Author: University of Michigan--Dearborn
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Thomas Meacham
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no "drama" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it "an impressively learned discussion" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: International Association of University Professors of English. Conference
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038502
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Addresses current issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - with special reference to Englishes past and present.
