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Author: Thomas D'UrfeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The marriage-hater match'd: a comedy. [3 variant copies].
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Author: Thomas D'UrfeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Marriage-hater Match'd: a Comedy. (1. Ed.)
Author: Thomas DurfeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Marriage-hater Match'd: a Comedy. (1. Ed.)
Author: Thomas DurfeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey
Author: Manuel J. Gómez-LaraPublisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 844753829X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
When young Phoebe asks Sir Philip Freewit, the man who has got her with child, to fulfil his promise and marry her, he replies with shock: “My wife! Then I should never love thee more”. Thomas Durfey’s The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692) pokes fun at the figure of the libertine rake, which had become a favourite dramatic type with Restoration theatregoers, and forces him in the end to make up for his past recklessness. Besides the marriage-hater and the two women that vie for his affections, a remarkable gallery of secondary characters people this amusing comedy: a Frenchified lady fawning on her lap-dog, a fat clownish Dutchman laughing at his own jokes, a impertinent match-making widow obsessed with food, a peevish old-fashioned courtier, a pert lisping ingénue and two rude boobies bearing the names of Greek philosophers. This first modern critical edition offers a fully annotated text in addition to an introduction that situates the comedy in its literary and theatrical contexts. ;The editors discuss at length how Durfey drew upon successful comic modes while at the same complying with the moral values advocated by the new monarchs, William and Mary (1688-1702).
Henry Purcell and the London Stage
Author: C. A. PricePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521238311
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of various types, most of them produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1690 and 1695. The songs, dialogues, choruses, act tunes and larger musical scenes are often active participants in the spoken drama, not simply grafted-on entertainments. The extraordinary semi-operas - Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen - are placed in the context of a theatre that thrived mainly on plays that, though less lavish, were no less musical. The traditional picture of a composer trapped within a degraded musical society, his natural predilection for opera ignored, is redrawn to show a consummate dramatist exploiting a remarkably musical theatre.
Religion and life cycles in early modern England
Author: Caroline BowdenPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526149222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Western Reserve University Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Beginning 19 - each bulletin contains details of curricula, course description, college rules, etc., for one of the schools or colleges at Western Reserve University.
Western Reserve Studies
Author: A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment
Author: Robert Stanley ForsythePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description