Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Nineteenth Century
Author: the library journal
Author: f. leypoldt The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
“The” Athenaeum
Author: The Literary World
Author: Sidelights on the Thirty Years War
Author: Hubert Granville Revell ReadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'DonovanThe three red knights; or, The brothers' vengeance by P. Féval, and Victor, the handsome coachman
Author: Paul Henri C. FévalThe Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham
Author: Newell W. SawyerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512806560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,