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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The Graduate School Abstracts of Theses written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Graduate School
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Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Dissertations written by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Graduate school
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Theses written by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Graduate school and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Dye
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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A Study of Melodrama in England from 1800 to 1840 ... written by William S. Dye and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Columbia University. Library
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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Masters' Essays written by Columbia University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hayley
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Three Plays written by William Hayley and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Snow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190618760
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book 1777 written by Dean Snow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in upstate New York was to separate rebellious New England from the other colonies. Despite inferior organization and training, the Americans exploited access to fresh reinforcements of men and materiel, and ultimately handed the British a stunning defeat. The American victory, for the first time in the war, confirmed that independence from Great Britain was all but inevitable. Assimilating the archaeological remains from the battlefield along with the many letters, journals, and memoirs of the men and women in both camps, Dean Snow's 1777 provides a richly detailed narrative of the two battles fought at Saratoga over the course of thirty-three tense and bloody days. While the contrasting personalities of Gates and Burgoyne are well known, they are but two of the many actors who make up the larger drama of Saratoga. Snow highlights famous and obscure participants alike, from the brave but now notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold to Frederika von Riedesel, the wife of a British major general who later wrote an important eyewitness account of the battles. Snow, an archaeologist who excavated on the Saratoga battlefield, combines a vivid sense of time and place with details on weather, terrain, and technology and a keen understanding of the adversaries' motivations, challenges, and heroism into a suspenseful, novel-like account. A must-read for anyone with an interest in American history, 1777 is an intimate retelling of the campaign that tipped the balance in the American War of Independence.
Author : Illinois State Library
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Total Pages : 814 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Illinois State Library
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Total Pages : 830 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue ... written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredric M. Litto
Publisher : Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre written by Fredric M. Litto and published by Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kiste
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493663
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Devonshire's Own written by John Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth-century martyr St Boniface, tennis player and TV presenter Sue Barker, painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, actor Sir Donald Sinden, Boer War commander Sir Redvers Buller, radio and TV presenter Ed Stewart and round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester are among personalities through the ages who have been born in Devon. The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, including Scott of the Antarctica, Agatha Christie, Parson Jack Russell (of terrier fame) and Wayne Sleep. The Elizabethan explorers Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh were all Devonians, as were party leaders Michael Foot and David Owen. This book, by renowned local author John Van der Kiste, features mini-biographies of all these and many more.
Author : Leo Hughes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292748027
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Drama's Patrons written by Leo Hughes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. —Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected these forces in the content of the plays of the period and in an increased awareness among playgoers that the theatre "must please to live." Drawing from a wealth of amusing and informative contemporary accounts, Leo Hughes presents abundant evidence that the theatre-going public proved zealous, and sometimes even unruly, in asserting its role and rights. He describes numerous species of individual pest—the box-lobby saunterers, the vizard masks (ladies of uncertain virtue), the catcallers, and the weeping sentimentalists. Protest demonstrations of various interest groups, such as footmen asserting their rights to sit in the upper gallery, reflect the behavior of the audience as a whole—an audience that Alexander Pope described as "the manyheaded monster of the pit." Hughes analyzes the changes in the audience's taste through the long span from Dryden's day to Sheridan's. He illustrates the decline in taste from the sophisticated, if bawdy, comedy of the Restoration Period to the sentimentalism and empty show of later decades. He attributes the increased emphasis on sentiment and spectacle to audience influence and describes the effects of audience demands on managers, playwrights, and players. He describes in detail the mixed assembly that frequented the theatre during this period and the greatly enlarged theatres that were built to accommodate it. Hughes concludes that it was the English people's basic love of liberty that allowed them to accept audience disruptions considered intolerable by foreign visitors and that the drama's patrons greatly influenced the quality of theatrical production during this long period.
Author : William Leist Redwin Cates
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Total Pages : 2414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of General Biography written by William Leist Redwin Cates and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 2414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645424278
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Study Guide to The Major Plays of George Bernard Shaw written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Bernard Shaw, who is second only to Shakespeare in the eyes of British tradition. Titles in this study guide include Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida, The Devil's Disciple, The Man of Destiny, Misalliance, Androcles and the Lion, and Heartbreak House. As a playwright of the early twentieth century, George Barnard Shaw became a prominent figure in revolutionizing comedic drama. Moreover, his reinvigoration of the comedy of manners, drama of moral passion, and symbolic farce helped mold the theatre in his time and beyond. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of George Bernard Shaw’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Benjamin Brawley
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace
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Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the English Drama written by Benjamin Brawley and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1921 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Ketchum
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466879521
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Saratoga written by Richard M. Ketchum and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997
Author : Kevin J. Weddle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199715998
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Compleat Victory written by Kevin J. Weddle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces, commanded by Major General Horatio Gates and inspired by the heroics of Benedict Arnold, forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war. Kevin J. Weddle offers the most authoritative history of the Battle of Saratoga to date, explaining with verve and clarity why events unfolded the way they did. In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. Taking Ticonderoga had misled Burgoyne and his army into thinking victory was assured. Saratoga, which began as a British foraging expedition, turned into a rout. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and, perhaps most critical of all, led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory."
