Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."

Author: Edward Neville
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Description: Compared to the printed edition of 1779 there are considerable differences with the manuscript containing scenes and speeches in Act II that were not printed.

Author: Gunda Windmüller
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899719689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on staging the sea in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the other. The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: John S. Amery
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: William Henry Kearley Wright
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

Author: Daniel James Ennis
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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"Even as press-gangs roamed the London streets, eighteenth-century writers applauded, critiqued, and condemned the practice Pepys called "a great tyranny" - the means of naval recruitment by which Britain simultaneously manned her fleets and oppressed her citizens." "This book centers on literature produced in "moments of crisis" - times when Britain faced a military challenge and thus needed her Navy most. When the French gained the upper hand early in the Seven Years' War, David Garrick was moved to write "To honour we call you, not press you like slaves, / For who are so free as we sons of the waves?" This characterization of the press as benign was common in the theater, even as sailors brawled with press-gangs on London Bridge. At the same time, novelists bitterly attacked impressment policy, showing how the press weighs most heavily on the poor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Category : Hunting and fishing clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Samuel Halkett
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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