Author: Elizabeth born Simpson InchbaldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Such Things Are; a Play, in 5 Actes. Every One Has His Fault; a Comedy, in 5 Acts ... from the German of (August) Kotzebue
Author: Elizabeth born Simpson InchbaldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Such Things Are; a Play, in 5 Actes. Every One Has His Fault; a Comedy, in 5 Acts ... from the German of (August) Kotzebue
Author: Elizabeth born Simpson InchbaldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Every One Has His Fault
Author: Mrs. InchbaldGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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The Colonel and His Friends
Author: Hulet M. WellsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330434451
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Excerpt from The Colonel and His Friends: A Suppressed Play; A Comedy in Three Acts Lucius - "Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?" Aaron- "Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day-and yet, I think Few come within the compass of my curse - Wherein I did not some notorious ill: As kill a man, or else devise his death; Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it; Accuse some innocent, and foreswear myself; Set deadly enmity between two friends; Make poor men's cattle stray and break their necks; Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night, And bid the owners quench them with their tears. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves, And set them upright at their dear friends' doors Even when their sorrows almost were forgot; And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.' Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly; And nothing grieves me heartily, indeed, But that I cannot do ten thousand more." - Titus Andronicus. When the storms of the people's wrath and disgust had gathered about Federal Judge Hanford's head he did not know, because of his great stupor. Others, who were hovering about his unhappy fortunes, did know and took council among themselves. They sent Senator Samuel H. Piles to John Perry to see "if the whole matter could not be chloroformd." "Yes," replied Perry, "it can." The Senator rubbed his hands after the manner of traders, and inquired how. "Tell the old scoundrel to get out of public life and never show his face in the light of day again." In their extreme distress they saw "the Colonel." "Let the judge get after the Socialists, and he'll have all the moneyed interests and the patriot societies to fortify him. The charges can be made to appear as a Socialist persecution and so be defeated." Followed the Leonard Olson case, the Socialist Congressmen rising to the "point of highest privilege, impeaching Hanford, and his toboggan slide into infamous oblivion. That is Blethen's plan to save himself. He really cares nothing at all about flags. The nearest he ever came to earning the title of Colonel was to lead a cotillion as a tin soldier on the staff of a Governor. His son, C. B. Blethen, the father of Alden J., the Third, of great heraldry, is a tinseled epauletted Captain Jenks on the staff of a Governor, likewise. C. B. was of service age at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, but he didn't fight for "his country." Perfectly real soldiers despise such men. 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.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Morant-Murray
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von GoethePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017373493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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.
Interpreting Chekhov
Author: Geoffrey BornyPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1920942688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Fiona RitchiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898609
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry
Author: Roger PaulinPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1909254959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent.