Author: Bernard ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Three Plays for Puritans
Author: Bernard ShawThree Plays for Puritans
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Plays and Puritans
Author: Charles KingsleyPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041628653
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Three Plays for Puritans
Author: Bernard ShawThree Plays for Puritans
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484472111
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Excerpt from Three Plays for Puritans: Being the Third Volume of His Collected Plays This is all very well but the trumpet is an instrument that grows on one and sometimes my blasts have been so strident that even those who are most annoyed by them have mistaken the novelty of my shamelessness for novelty in my plays and opinions. Take, for instance, the first play in this volume, entitled The Devil's Disciple. It does not contain a single even passably novel incident. Every old patron of the Adelphi pit would, were he not beglamored in a way presently to be explained, recognize the reading of the will, the oppressed orphan finding a protector, the arrest, the heroic sacrifice, the court martial, the scaffold, the reprieve at the last moment, as he recognizes beefsteak pudding on the bill of fare at his restaurant. Yet when the play was produced in 1897 in New York by Mr Richard Mansfield, with a success that proves either that the melo drama was built on very safe old lines, or that the American public is composed exclusively of men of genius, the critics, though one said one thing and another another as to the play's merits, yet all agreed that it was novel - original, as they put it - to the verge of audacious eccentricity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ungodly Delights
Author: Colin RicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Three Plays for Puritans
Author: George Bernard ShawThree Plays for Puritans
Author: George Bernard ShawPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140437928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these three plays of ideas, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil�s Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound�s Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer�s skilful manipulation of the truth.
The Controversy Between the Puritans and the Stage
Author: Elbert Nevius Sebring ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Pilgrims and Puritans
Author: Christopher CollierPublisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1620644959
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. In Pilgrims and Puritans, the authors begin in the year 1620 in England and end in New England in the year 1676. The book recounts the religious, political, and social history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its influence on our lives today. The narrative follows various groups of settlers from their departure from England through arrival in the New World and their often violent conflicts with the native peoples of the Americas. The authors examine a number of issues that arose in the new society that was founded and the rise and fall of the "city on a hill."