Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Playboys and Killjoys
Author: Harry LevinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent "playboy," whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding "killjoy," whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media. While mainly focusing on the plays and the stage, with discussions of such major dramatists as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Molière, and William Congreve, Levin also includes essays on such related topics as humor, satire, and games.
The Spectator; Volume 1
Author: Richard SteelePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016396493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Century of Parody and Imitation
Author: Walter JerroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Author: A. P. RussellModern Chivalry
Author: Hugh Henry BrackenridgePublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603842136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
It was only after serving as a chaplain in the American Revolution, playing an important role in the Whiskey Rebellion, and serving (often controversially) on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that Hugh Henry Brackenridge composed his great comic epic. Published in installments over the twenty-eight–year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison, this irreverent and ribald novel, relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O'Regan, leaves no major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issue of the period unscathed.
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychoanalysis
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham BrewerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
A Short History of English Literature
Author: Harry BlamiresPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134942109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.
Every Man Out of His Humour
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465505237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.