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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours of William Congreve Esq.; Interspersed with Miscellanous Essays, Letters and Characters, Written by Him. Also Some Very Curious Memoirs of Mr. Dryden and His Family, with a Character of Him and His Writing, by Mr. Congreve. Compiled from Their Respective Originals, by Charles Wilson ..
Author: Memoirs of the life, writings, and amours of William Congreve, interspersed with essays, letters [&c.] written by him. Compiled by C. Wilson. [With] A true copy of the last will and testament of W. Congreve
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Author: William CongreveMemoirs of the Life, Writings, and Amours of William Congreve, Esq
Author: Charles WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Works of William Congreve
Author: Donald McKenziePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191538140
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this edition is dedicated. During that time McKenzie uncovered new verse and letters, collated Congreve's texts, recorded their complicated textual history, constructed appendices that shed light on the dramatic context in which Congreve worked, and examined how his contemporaries received Congreve's work. More importantly, McKenzie has convincingly re-evaluated Congreve's works and life to transform our image of the man and his reputation. McKenzie here follows the editorial practice suggested in two early editions of the Works published by Congreve's friend, the bookseller Jacob Tonson, in 1710 and 1719. These three volumes follow a plan similar to that in the Tonson edition, with The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love collected in the first, a central volume with The Way of the World, and a final volume with Congreve's novel Incognita, some of his prose works, letters, and later verse. In each case, Congreve's work is left to speak for itself, unencumbered by intrusive notes, textual apparatus, or collations, which are gathered instead near the end of each volume. This edition will be an invaluable resource for scholars for many years to come. It is a monument to McKenzie's own scholarship as well as to the integrity of William Congreve.
The Works of William Congreve
Author: William CongrevePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198118848
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana ; Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books, Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville
Author: John Thomas PayneEnglish Biography in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mark LongakerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Dictionary of phrase and fable
Author: Ebenezer Cobham BrewerPublisher:
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Fatal Desire
Author: Jean I. MarsdenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience. Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period.