Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parrott, Thomas Marc, 1866-1960
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
All Fooles
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parrott, Thomas Marc, 1866-1960
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
All Fools
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Revels Plays
ISBN: 9780719089251
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Of all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both 'our best for tragedy' and 'the best poets for comedy': William Shakespeare and George Chapman. All Fools, written in 1599, is the only Elizabethan comedy based directly on the plays of Terence. By taking episodes and characters from two brilliant works, The Self-Tormenter and The Brothers, Chapman creates something that is distinctly Elizabethan while remaining faithful to the spirit of the great Roman master. In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599.
A Select Collection of Old Plays: The malcontent; All fools; Eastward hoe; The revenger's tragedy; The dumb knight
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Memoir. Blinde beggar of Alexandria. Humerous dayes mirth. All fooles. Monsieur D'Olive. Gentleman vsher. Notes
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
How We Were All Fooled
Author: Victoria ReillyPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book covers many questions about how we as a country got to Black American racism. As I found more and more answers, I realized how many of them were totally new to me and how I felt that I had been so deceived about so much of our history. After talking to many people, Black and white, I knew that it wasn't just me who had been deceived. There is so much that has been done to Black Americans over the ages, not just slavery, that I felt everyone could understand better if various truths were revealed. One Black young man I discussed this with seemed to visibly feel better about himself just hearing some of these basic truths. Eugenics, I believe, was worse than slavery. Eugenics founder, Galton, was a first cousin to Charles Darwin. This was all related to Malthus, who decided in 1795 that overpopulation was a dire emergency. Eugenics was the answer to who should be allowed to live or reproduce in order to keep the world population down. The geologic timetable, evolution, overpopulation, and eugenics all came about in the early 1800s before any carbon dating. Who is still pushing this, and how does it all relate to American racism?
The mal-content, by J. Marston. All fools, by G. Chapman. Eastward hoe, by G. Chapman, B. Jonson, J. Marston. The revenger's tragedy, by C. Tourner. The dumb knight, by L. Machin
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
All Fools' Day
Author: Edmund CooperPublisher: Coronet
ISBN:
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Complete Works of John Lyly
Author: John LylyAll Fools
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Chapman based the plot of All Fools on two classical Roman comedies by Terence, the Heauton Timorumenos and the Adelphoe.[7] As to be expected with Terentian and Terence-influenced comedy, the plot of All Fools centers on two old men and their children. The two seniors are knights of Florence named Gostanzo and Marc Antonio. Gostanzo is a brashly acquisitive and manipulative old man, an "old, politique, dissembling knight" who believes that "Honesty is but a defect of wit." In contrast, Marc Antonio is a mellower-tempered gentleman who follows a course of "simple honesty." Each of the knights has two children: Gostanzo is the father of a son, Valerio, and a daughter, Bellomora, while Marc Antonio has two sons, Fortunio and Rynaldo. Valerio has received the education appropriate to a young gentleman, though his father keeps him down on the farm, busy with the tasks of husbandry; and Bellomora is secluded at home. This inhibits the love lives of both young people. Valerio has entered into a secret marriage with the comely but poor Gratiana, yet cannot acknowledge his marriage publicly due to paternal opposition. Marc Antonio's elder son Fortunio is in love with Bellamora, but has no opportunity to court her. The nosy Gostanzo happens to catch sight of the group of young people, and notes Valerio and Gratiana together. As the others retreat, the witty young Rynaldo persuades Gostanzo that Gratiana is actually the secret wife of his brother Fortunio. Rynaldo manipulatively presses Gostanzo to keep the secret; Gostanzo agrees...and instantly goes to Marc Antonio to inform him. Marc Antonio is skeptical that his son is secretly married; in response Gostanzo talks up a tower of speculation and possibility, in which Marc Antonio's righteous indignation drives Fortunio to run off to the wars and lose various limbs. Gostanzo works up his own solution to this non-existent problem: Fortunio and Gratiana will come to live in Gostanzo's house, and Gostanzo will persuade Fortunio of the error of his ways. This plan, when carried out, gives the young people exactly what they want. Valerio and his wife Gratiana are under the same roof, under his father's nose; and Fortunio can woo Bellomora. Yet Gostanzo's busybody nature cannot rest; spying on his guests, he notes that his son Valerio is too affectionate with Fortunio's "wife" Gratiana. He cooks up a further plan, to send Gratiana to the house of her "father-in-law" Marc Antonio, to prevent Fortunio from being "cuckolded" in his (non-existent) marriage. Marc Antonio remains skeptical. Gostanzo is so sure he's right that when Valerio gives a deceptive confession of his marriage, Gostanzo thinks that his son is fooling with Marc Antonio and gives his son a facetious pardon for his fault. The outcome is that once the full story comes out at the end of the play, Valerio has gained his father's public blessing of his marriage with Gratiana. Gostanzo, a self-expressed admirer of wit, has to concede his son's cleverness. Meanwhile, Fortunio has made the most of his opportunity and married Bellomora. The play has a subplot on the topic of male jealousy: Cornelio is irrationally and excessively jealous of his faithful wife Gazetta, and quarrels with the man he thinks is her lover. He duels with and wounds the courtier Doriotto, and threatens to divorce his wife - which allows opportunities for medical humor with Pock the surgeon, and legal humor with a Notary. (The Notary even provides a specific date for the play in his divorce document: 17 November 1500.) In the end, the divorce does not occur; Cornelio admits that he was only trying to teach his wife a lesson.
An Idyll of All Fools' Day
Author: Josephine Daskam BaconPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
An Idyll of All Fools' Day is a story by Josephine Daskam Bacon. Bacon wrote a series of juvenile mysteries as well as works of poetry. She authored several works on "women's issues" and women's roles as well.