Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The comedies: The blind beggar of Alexandria. An humourous day's mirth. All fools. May-day. The gentleman usher. Monsieur D'Olive. The widow's tears. The masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. Eastward ho. The ball. Sir Giles Goosecap. Introduction and notes
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016332
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
All Fools
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Revels Plays
ISBN: 9780719089251
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Of all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both 'our best for tragedy' and 'the best poets for comedy': William Shakespeare and George Chapman. All Fools, written in 1599, is the only Elizabethan comedy based directly on the plays of Terence. By taking episodes and characters from two brilliant works, The Self-Tormenter and The Brothers, Chapman creates something that is distinctly Elizabethan while remaining faithful to the spirit of the great Roman master. In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599.
The Widow's Tears
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780416030204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
All Fooles
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parrott, Thomas Marc, 1866-1960
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
Author: Virginia BrackettPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
Author: George SaintsburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
O Pioneers!
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1454954582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father, John Bergson, grows sick and dies, he leaves the farm in the hands of his eldest daughter Alexandra Bergson. Resourceful and determined, Alexandra devotes her life to her family's farm, determined to prosper even as her neighbors are overwhelmed by the unremitting demands of pioneer life. But when she falls in love with her childhood friend, Carl Linstrum, Alexandra must choose between her duty to the land, and to her heart. A spirited celebration of the immigrants who have shaped the United States, O Pioneers! is a masterpiece by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
The 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.
The Roman Actor: A Tragedy
Author: Philip MassingerPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Roman Actor explores the balance between private and public moralities, effectively condemns tyranny, and defends plays, anatomizing both the theatre of power and the power of theatre. This new Revels Plays volume provides a modernized text with a thorough introduction that sets out Massinger's intervention in the political tensions of his own time and examines his clear-eyed portrayal of the pleasures and perils of performance. It also includes a detailed commentary on the play and an appendix discussing the play's textual history. It focuses on the play's theatrical life in its own time and ours, and gives a detailed stage history including an interview with Sir Antony Sher, who played the tyrannical Roman emperor, Domitian, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production in 2002.