Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Jester's Magazine: Or, The Monthly Merrymaker
Author: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; ...
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Dublin University Magazine
Author: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books (etc.)
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870
Author: In the Mid-eighteenth Century Hilarity, Pitilessness, Narrative Fiction
Author: Simon Edridge DickiePublisher:
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Category : Comic, The, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
In part I, a detailed study of mid-eighteenth-century jestbooks, and of the everyday humor that these texts reflect, demonstrates that pitiless laughter at the misfortunes and afflictions of others remained a widely acceptable pleasure, at all levels of mid-century society. Part II considers the mid-eighteenth century's frank delight at physical suffering: its extremely violent practical humor; bloody commercial entertainments such as prize-fights and sword shows; and the pitiless glee of execution crowds. Part III focuses on "minor" comic fiction and then considers the striking affinities between these forgotten texts and the now-canonical novels of Fielding and Smollett.
University Magazine
Author: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
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Category : Veterinary medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.