Author: Nicholas RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Rowe's Plays: The ambitious stepmother; a tragedy. 4th ed. 1727. Tamerlane; a tragedy. 5th ed. 1726. The fair penitent; a tragedy. 1930. Ulysses; a tragedy. 3d ed. 1726
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Author: Sir Paul HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Bibliotheca Heberiana ; Catalogue Of The Library Of The Late Richard Heber, Esq
Author: Richard HeberThe Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Author: Margaret DrabblePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.
Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
The Female Wits
Author: AnonymousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Female Wits" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Jane Shore
Author: Nicholas RowePublisher:
ISBN: 9781409992233
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) was an English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer. The future English poet was educated first at Highgate School, and then at Westminster School under the guidance of a Dr. Busby. In 1688, he became a King's scholar, which was followed by his entrance into Middle Temple in 1691. Rowe acted as under-secretary (1709-1711) to the duke of Queensberry when he was principal secretary of state for Scotland. On the accession of George I he was made a surveyor of customs, and in 1715 he succeeded Nahum Tate as poet laureate. He was also appointed clerk of the council to the Prince of Wales, and in 1718 was nominated by Lord Chancellor Parker as clerk of the presentations in Chancery. He wrote occasional verses addressed to Godolphin and Halifax, adapted some of the odes of Horace to fit contemporary events, and translated the Caractres of Jean de La Bruyere and the Callipaedia of Claude Quillet. He also wrote a memoir of Boileau prefixed to a translation of the Lutrin. His other works include: The Ambitious Stepmother (1700), Tamerlane (1702), The Fair Penitent (1703) and Jane Shore: A Tragedy (1714).
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: RigbyBritish Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan
Author: George Winchester StonePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809307432
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.