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Book Synopsis Plays and Dramatic Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Lamb
Download or read book Plays and Dramatic Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plays and Dramatic Essays 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.
Book Synopsis Dramatic Essays (Classic Reprint) by : John Dryden
Download or read book Dramatic Essays (Classic Reprint) written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dramatic Essays John Dryden was born at Aid winkle All Saints, Northamptonshire, on the 9th August 1631, and was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1654, the year in which he took his degree, his father died, leaving him a small property. He then drifted to London, where he seems for a time to have been employed in some secretarial capacity or clerkship. His first substantial experiment in literature - the "Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell" - appeared in 1659. In these bombastic verses, with all their crudities, affectations, and "metaphysical" conceits, not even the most prescient critic could have detected any indication of the splendid powers which Dryden's work was presently to reveal. With the return of the Stuarts the young poet found it convenient to change his politics, and his next publications celebrated the "happy restoration" and coronation of Charles II. These are marked indeed by a great advance in form and style, but they are now chiefly valuable as showing that Dryden's genius ripened very slowly. In 1663 he married Lady Elizabeth Howard, sister of his friend, Sir Robert Howard, the Crites of the "Essay of Dramatic Poesy;" but the union was not a fortunate one. By this time Dryden was working his way steadily into notice as a playwright, though he gained no pronounced success till the production (in collaboration with Howard) of "The Indian Queen" in 1664, and its sequel, "The Indian Emperor," in 1665. Then came the plague, the closing of the theatres, and the composition of the "Essay of Dramatic Poesy" and the long "heroic" poem, "Annus Mirabilis." The faults of the latter work are numerous and glaring; but it has vigour and distinction, and easily placed its author in the front rank of English poets at a time when poetic genius was at a low ebb, and there were few indeed to contest his position. 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.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Drama (Classic Reprint) by : Theodore Martin
Download or read book Essays on the Drama (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on the Drama A name by which certain writers of this period were known, who wrote ambitious, but wholly unactable plays, describing high actions and high passions with more turgidity than force, and with a prevailing disregard to nature and probability. 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.
Download or read book Dramatic Essays written by Leigh Hunt and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Critical Essays on the Plays of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) by : William Watkiss Lloyd
Download or read book Critical Essays on the Plays of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Critical Essays on the Plays of Shakespeare The folly with which Stephano and Trinculo allow themselves to be diverted from their enterprise by the glittering frippery would, consciously or not, be heightened by recent note of the infatuated colonists, among whom, with failing supplies, there was no work, no talk, no hope, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, and from whom two ships had recently arrived, freighted with what was imagined by the adventurers to be the precious ore, and turned out to be talc! 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.
Book Synopsis Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses (Classic Reprint) by : Abraham Cowley
Download or read book Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses (Classic Reprint) written by Abraham Cowley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses Oh Reader! Doe not that my error call, But thinbe her teares defac't it, and blame then My Muses and not my missing Pen. 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.
Book Synopsis The Modern Drama an Essay in Interpretation (Classic Reprint) by : Ludwig Lewisohn
Download or read book The Modern Drama an Essay in Interpretation (Classic Reprint) written by Ludwig Lewisohn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Modern Drama an Essay in Interpretation With a few honourable exceptions books about books are apt, at present in America, to be any thing but critical. An account of the modern drama, therefore, that aims at historical orderliness and intellectual coherence need not, perhaps, offer an excuse for its existence. My study is not one of phases or aspects but of the whole subject which I have attempted to grasp and to interpret as a whole. If I have succeeded m any measure, this volume should prove of real usefulness to students, teachers and critics of the drama. I have omitted any discussion of the theatre of Italy and Spain. No criticism can be fruitful which is not based on an intimate acquaintance with the idiom which that literature employs. But this omission represents no absolute loss. Italy and Spain have followed and exemplified the tendencies and methods of the modern theatre. They have neither changed them nor originated others. 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.
Book Synopsis Teaching the Drama and the Essay (Classic Reprint) by : Brother Leo
Download or read book Teaching the Drama and the Essay (Classic Reprint) written by Brother Leo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Teaching the Drama and the Essay And so it comes to pass that great books impart a knowledge of human nature - general and par ticular. They teach us to know man and to know men. How one grows in spiritual and intellectual stature as he reads Macaulay's essay on Milton! He discovers that Cavalier and Puritan are not merely two figures in English history but that they are two eternal human types, and that he himself approximates to one or the otherand possesses cor responding advantages and defects. He sees now as never before that loyalty is sometimes unright cous and that righteousness is sometimes disloyal; that the good man finds it hard to be a tolerant man, and that the man who puts not virtue in the first place will be ultimately overcome. And the great blind poet, hitherto an abstraction, becomes real to him, and like himself a child Of Heaven and' a child of sin, like himself the victim of pain and penury and circumstance, like himself tormented by unrealized ideals and the agony Of unrest. And all this and ever so much more, be it remarked in passing, one may secure from the essay without so much as suspecting that Macaulay wrote balanced sentences. 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.
Book Synopsis The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1 by : H. Sutherland Edwards
Download or read book The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1 written by H. Sutherland Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lyrical Drama, Vol. 1: Essays on Subjects, Composers,& Executants of Modern Opera The first Opera on a profane or rather on a secular subject-for it is surely a mistake to regard everything not sacred as necessarily profane - was the descent of Orpheus into the infernal regions - drawn thither, as is well known, by his wife Eurydice. The subject of Orpheus, alike lyrical and dramatic, has been a favourite one with composers for the last four cen turies, from Poliziano, who produced his Orfeo at Rome in 1480, up to Gluck, nearly three centuries later, and from Gluck down to Offenbach, who de lights a good many persons in the present day. The Orfeo which was brought out just four centuries ago, at Rome, bore no more resemblance in a musical point of view to a modern Opera than did the sacred musical plays before spoken of and up to the year 1600 we meet with no musical work which bears more. 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.
Book Synopsis The Renascence of the English Drama by : Henry Arthur Jones
Download or read book The Renascence of the English Drama written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, and Fragments; Relating to the Modern English Stage, Written and Delivered in the Years 1883-94 I can well understand and sympathise with the feelings of impatience and resentment which these essays and lectures have aroused in many quarters during the last ten years, and I have always known that there was much worldly wisdom in the advice of the many friends who have so constantly urged me to hold my tongue upon the subject of the drama. It is a shrewd instinct in the public mind which prompts it to suspect that in matters of art the same great law prevails which it so constantly finds true in matters of morals - namely, that talking and doing are in inverse proportion to each other. And no one is more firmly convinced than I of the stupendous uselessness and impertinence of all preaching and criticism that does not fall in with the growing tendencies of thought around it. 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.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Drama by : William Bodham Donne
Download or read book Essays on the Drama written by William Bodham Donne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on the Drama: And on Popular Amusements By additions, retrenchments, and modifications, I could perhaps have rendered these Essays better worth reproduction. But I prefer leaving them as they were originally written, since in that form they attained the approbation I most value. 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.
Download or read book Tragic Drama written by Lewis Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tragic Drama: In Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare; An Essay In treating separately of the general subject, and of the several authors and their tragic dramas in particular, it was difficult to avoid some repetition. I trust to the reader's generosity to look indulgently on this and other imperfections. 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.
Book Synopsis The Foundations of a National Drama by : Henry Arthur Jones
Download or read book The Foundations of a National Drama written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Foundations of a National Drama: A Collection of Lectures, Essays and Speeches, Delivered and Written in the Years 1869-1912 Huxley tells us that at the outset of his career he asked himself what was the best thing he could wish for himself in life: and that after much pondering he could think of no gift so desirable to beg from fortune as the courage always to speak the truth upon any matter of public concern, with perfect fearlessness and sincerity, taking no heed of personal consequences. The record of that great clear thinker and writer shows that the fairies granted him his request. Indeed what better thing could any man ask for himself at the beginning of life; or wish to hold fast through the struggles and confusions of his midway years; or find a greater satisfaction and pride in cherishing as his dearest possession at the close? I may claim that a desire to know and to speak the exact truth about the matters dealt with in the following papers has been the only motive that has urged me, often against my interests and inclinations, to write them. My one wish has been to gain for myself and to spread amongst playgoers a knowledge of those facts and conditions and rules which will help to develop an intellectual drama in England, and to make our theatre an object of national pride and esteem, the admiration instead of the contempt of Europe. And I could be well content to learn that the knowledge of those facts and conditions and rules has so far advanced into practice on our actual stage, that already these essays and lectures have become obsolete and needless. But have we reached such a goal? 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.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by : Sidney Lee
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Modern Stage written by Sidney Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other Essays In revising the work for the press, I have deemed it advisable to submit the papers to a somewhat rigorous verbal revision. Errors have been corrected. 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.
Download or read book Complete Essays written by Francis Bacon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe Elizabethan sage offers wise, witty observations on truth, adversity, love, ambition, fame, and many other topics. Short but thought-provoking, these essays constitute an excellent combination of style and substance. /div
Book Synopsis Essays and a Drama in Five Acts (Classic Reprint) by : E. G. Holland
Download or read book Essays and a Drama in Five Acts (Classic Reprint) written by E. G. Holland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays and a Drama in Five Acts We do not lastingly admire the friend who is careful to shew, at the close of every transaction, that his con duct has flown from especial regard; nor do we dislike it that in the character of our associate we discover unconquered territory stretching away in the distance. 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.
Book Synopsis As If: Essays in As You Like It by : William N. West
Download or read book As If: Essays in As You Like It written by William N. West and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's As You Like It is a play without a theme. Instead, it repeatedly poses one question in a variety of forms: What if the world were other than it is? As You Like It is a set of experiments in which its characters conditionally change an aspect of their world and see what comes of it: what if I were not a girl but a man? What if I were not a duke, but someone like Robin Hood? What if I were a deer? "What would you say to me now an [that is, "if"] I were your very, very Rosalind?" (4.1.64-65). "Much virtue in 'if'," as one of its characters declares near the play's end; 'if' is virtual. It releases force even if the force is not that of what is the case. Change one thing in the world, the play asks, and how else does everything change? In As You Like It, unlike Shakespeare's other plays, the characters themselves are both experiment and experimenters. They assert something about the world that they know is not the case, and their fictions let them explore what would happen if it were-and not only if it were, but something, not otherwise apparent, about how it is now. What is as you like it? What is it that you, or anyone, really likes or wants? The characters of As You Like It stand in 'if' as at a hinge of thought and action, conscious that they desire something, not wholly capable of getting it, not even able to say what it is. Their awareness that the world could be different than it is, is a step towards making it something that they wish it to be, and towards learning what that would be. Their audiences are not exempt. As You Like It doesn't tell us that it knows what we like and will give it to us. It pushes us to find out. Over the course of the play, characters and audiences experiment with other ways the world could be and come closer to learning what they do like, and how their world can be more as they like it. By exploring ways the world can be different than it is, the characters of As You Like It strive to make the world a place in which they can be at home, not as a utopia-Arden may promise that, but certainly doesn't fulfill it-but as an ongoing work of living. We get a sense at the play's end not that things have been settled once and for all, but that the characters have taken time to breathe-to live in their new situations until they discover better ones, or until they discover newer desires. As You Like It, in other words, is a kind of essay: a set of tests or attempts to be differently in the world, and to see what happens. These essays in As If: As You Like It, originally commissioned as an introductory guide for students, actors, and admirers of the play, trace the force and virtue of someof the claims of the play that run counter to what is the case-its 'ifs.' William N. West is Associate Professor of English, Classics, and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also chair of the Department of Classics and co-editor of the journal Renaissance Drama. He is co-editor (with Helen Higbee) of Robert Weimann's Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Writing and Playing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Cambridge, 2000) and (with Bryan Reynolds) of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern Stage (Palgrave, 2005). In addition to his book Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe (2002), he has recently published articles on Romeo and Juliet's understudies, irony and encyclopedic writing before and after the Enlightenment, Ophelia's intertheatricality (with Gina Bloom and Anston Bosman), humanism and the resistance to theology, Shakespeare's matter, and conversation as a theory of knowledge in Browne's Pseudodoxia. His work has been supported by grants from the NEH and the Beinecke, Folger, Huntington, and Newberry libraries.
