Author: William Congreve Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267609604 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 290
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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of William Congreve, Vol. 2 of 2 For that damn'd poet's {par'd who damns a brother, As one thief Tcapes that executes another. Thus far alone does to the wits relate. 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.
Author: William Congreve Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483911208 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 312
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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of William Congreve, Esq., Vol. 1 of 2 What will the world fay? Where's my reputation? Now that's at (lake - No, fool, 'tis out o' fafliion. If lofs of that (bould follow want of wit. 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.
Author: William Congreve Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721928842 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by William Congreve For one may apprehend the whole truth to be somewhat thus. Satiric comedy, or comedy of manners, is the art of making ludicrous in dramatic form some phase of life. The writers of our old comedy thought that certain vices-gambling, adultery, and the like-formed a phase of life which for divers reasons, essential and accidental, lent itself best to their purpose. They may, or may not, have thought they were doing society a service: their real justification is that, as artists, they had to take for their art that material they could use best. They used it according to their lights: Wycherley with a coarse and heavy hand, so that it became nauseous; Etherege with a light touch and a gay perception; Congreve with an instinct of good-breeding, with a sure and extensive observation, and with an incomparable style. But all were justified in choosing for their material just what they chose. They sinned artistically, now here, now there; but to complain of this old comedy as a whole, that vice in it is crammed too closely, is to forget that a play is a picture, not a photograph, of life-is life arranged and coloured-and that comedy of manners is composed of foibles or vices condensed and relieved by one another. In so far as they overdid this work, the comic writers were artistically at fault, and Jeremy Collier was a good critic; but when he and his successors go beyond the artistic objection, one takes leave to say, they misapprehend the thing criticised. To complain that 'love' and common morality have no place in satiric comedy is either to contemplate ridicule of them or to ask comedy to be other than satiric. We know what happened when the dramatists gave way: there followed, Hazlitt says, 'those do-me-good, lack-a-daisical, whining, make-believe comedies in the next age, which are enough to set one to sleep, and where the author tries in vain to be merry and wise in the same breath.' These in place of 'the court, the gala day of wit and pleasure, of gallantry, and Charles the Second!' And all because people would not keep their functions distinct, and remember that at a comedy they were in a court of art and not in a court of law! The old comedy is dead, and its spirit gone from the stage: I have but endeavoured to show that no harm need come to our phylacteries, if a flame start from its ashes in the printed book. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: George Watson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521079341 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1698
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author: Bernard Shaw Publisher: ISBN: 9781333041182 Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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Excerpt from Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. 2: Containing the Four Pleasant Plays Readers of the discourse with which the preceding Volume is prefaced will remember that I turned my hand to playwriting when a great deal of talk about the New Drama, and the actual establishment of a New Theatre (the Independent), threatened to end in the humiliating discovery that the New Drama, in Eng land at least, was a figment of the revolutionary imagina tion. This was not to be endured. I had rashly taken up the case; and rather than let it collapse, I manu factured the evidence. 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.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267608119 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 204
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Excerpt from The Two Noble Kinsmen, Vol. 2: Edited From Quarto of 1634; General Introduction and List of Words We may feel sure that the authors of the Two Noble Kinsmen followed Chaucer, as they professed to do, without troubling them selves with examining these earlier plays. The very simplicity of the underplot is an argument -for its origination by Shakspere, for he never invented a complex plot, while its poverty and dullness must be ascribed to the fact that he only gave the merest fragmentary outline of it, which Fletcher took up and perverted and spoiled. How different it would have been had Shakspere worked out the underplot he had designed, I cannot say, but I can well imagine. 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.
Author: John Hill Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267199433 Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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Excerpt from An Unfortunate Arrangement, Vol. 2 of 2 Well, if I were you, I would halt a day or two at Ulm. You will find it repay, and be a good way of breaking the journey. 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.
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