Author: Martin Crimp
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571363911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own? When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier. What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism. A self-declared 'modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others, but what are we hiding from ourselves? Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. 'Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculiarly modern.' Guardian 'Thrills, chills, and belly laughs - this addictively adult comedy has got the lot.' Daily Telegraph
The False Servant
Author: Martin Crimp
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571363911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own? When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier. What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism. A self-declared 'modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others, but what are we hiding from ourselves? Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. 'Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculiarly modern.' Guardian 'Thrills, chills, and belly laughs - this addictively adult comedy has got the lot.' Daily Telegraph
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571363911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own? When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier. What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris' disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism. A self-declared 'modern', Marivaux is a pioneer in the exploration of human feeling, asking in this play not only what do we hide from others, but what are we hiding from ourselves? Martin Crimp's version of Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in June 2022. 'Marivaux's scepticism, irony and fascination with money and sex make him seem peculiarly modern.' Guardian 'Thrills, chills, and belly laughs - this addictively adult comedy has got the lot.' Daily Telegraph
Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
Author: Gabriel A. Rieger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351900943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351900943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
A Bond-Servant's Revelation
Author: Rosario D'Souza
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664152008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Of all the books in the world, the Bible is the most important. Of all the books in the Bible, the book of Revelation is the most important to understand, and the most difficult to decipher. This book unravels the secrets hidden in the book of Revelation. What is the purpose of each chapter? What is the sequence of events leading to the end? What/Who is the antichrist? What/Who is the false prophet? What/Who does 666 represent? What is the apostasy? What are the beasts? What do the ten horns represent? What is the great tribulation? What is the abomination of desolation? What is the sixth seal? What are the seven trumpets? What are the seven plagues? What is the new Jerusalem? This book clearly answers all those questions, and more. This book is thrilling to read, easy to understand, and full of surprises – and therefore a must read!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664152008
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Of all the books in the world, the Bible is the most important. Of all the books in the Bible, the book of Revelation is the most important to understand, and the most difficult to decipher. This book unravels the secrets hidden in the book of Revelation. What is the purpose of each chapter? What is the sequence of events leading to the end? What/Who is the antichrist? What/Who is the false prophet? What/Who does 666 represent? What is the apostasy? What are the beasts? What do the ten horns represent? What is the great tribulation? What is the abomination of desolation? What is the sixth seal? What are the seven trumpets? What are the seven plagues? What is the new Jerusalem? This book clearly answers all those questions, and more. This book is thrilling to read, easy to understand, and full of surprises – and therefore a must read!
Tragedies of the English Renaissance
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474419585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474419585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age
Stages of History
Author: Phyllis Rackin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172472X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance historiography that are also areas of concern in recent criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history in Shakespeare's theater participated—and its representation in subsequent criticism still participates—in the contests between opposed theories of history and between the different ideological interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time; but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences came together to watch common players enact the roles of their social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order. Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the contradictions of Elizabethan culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172472X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance historiography that are also areas of concern in recent criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history in Shakespeare's theater participated—and its representation in subsequent criticism still participates—in the contests between opposed theories of history and between the different ideological interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time; but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences came together to watch common players enact the roles of their social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order. Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the contradictions of Elizabethan culture.
The New-York Legal Observer
Author: Samuel Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Serbian folk-lore
Author: Elodie Lawton Mijatović
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: George Sampson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521095815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521095815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Bible Treasury
Author: John Nelson Darby
Publisher: Irving Risch
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Bethany and Heaven; or Blessed by Christ, and in Christ Truth Absolute And Relative False Prophets The Lord Jesus as Revealed to Faith "Fallen Angels" The Intermediate State Matthew 11: 28 Christ as High Priest Entering Heaven, and as King of Kings Coming Out "Let him take all" Christ's Witness Not Alone, but if Alone, Divine A Word on John 14: 23 Texts of Scripture Misapprehended At The Feet of Jesus Fragments Typical Aspects of Christ's Death Thoughts on Romans 8: 18-38
Publisher: Irving Risch
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Bethany and Heaven; or Blessed by Christ, and in Christ Truth Absolute And Relative False Prophets The Lord Jesus as Revealed to Faith "Fallen Angels" The Intermediate State Matthew 11: 28 Christ as High Priest Entering Heaven, and as King of Kings Coming Out "Let him take all" Christ's Witness Not Alone, but if Alone, Divine A Word on John 14: 23 Texts of Scripture Misapprehended At The Feet of Jesus Fragments Typical Aspects of Christ's Death Thoughts on Romans 8: 18-38