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Comedy of Manners

Author : David L. Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351629905
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Comedy of Manners written by David L. Hirst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic form, emphasising the distinctive subjects and style that distinguish it from more general forms of witty social satire. The author discusses the major comic dramatists of the post-Restoration period; reassesses the significance of Sheridan, Wilde and Coward; and examines the continuation of the tradition in modern writers. This book will be of interest to students of English literature and drama.

The Comedy of Manners

Author : John Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Manners written by John Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Contrast

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814783430
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Contrast written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

The School for Scandal

Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The School for Scandal written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Ladies

Author : Pat Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820316642
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Ladies written by Pat Gill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Ladies explores the defense by the Restoration comedy of manners of an ideal of aristocratic, conservative, English masculinity against the heavily satirized encroachments of French foppishness and the pretensions of the aspiring merchant class. Using Freud's theory of obscene wit, in which obscene jokes become reassuring testimonies of male privilege, as well as more recent theoretical descriptions of the discursive processes of meaning and desire, Gill considers the position of both the female protagonists and the female spectators in Restoration satire. She sketches the historical events and issues that create the link between morality and rhetoric and that serve to connect each to class and status. Gill posits that the moral indeterminacy and slippage in satiric language is closely linked to male uneasiness about female honesty, and the dramatists' arguments in defense of their satiric treatments of female hypocrisy, duplicity, and sexual desire expose the gap in the moral premise of Restoration comic satire. It is a gap, Gill contends, that has everything to do with women - with female characters and putative female spectators - and it is why she states that "any reading that proposes to account for the equivocal satiric practice of Restoration comedy must therefore of necessity include a feminist critique".

Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration

Author : Joseph Wood Krutch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration written by Joseph Wood Krutch and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1467756547
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.

˜Theœ way of the world

Author : William Congreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book ˜Theœ way of the world written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030188
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Satire written by Jonathan Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Restoration Comedy in Performance

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.

This Much Huxley Knows

Author : Gail Aldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684337316
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book This Much Huxley Knows written by Gail Aldwin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven-year-old Huxley searches for a best friend but life is confusing when he doesn't know who is trustworthy.

The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy

Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003083
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy written by Adam Zucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.

Mrs. Mannerly

Author : Jeffrey Hatcher
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822225249
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Mannerly written by Jeffrey Hatcher and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Inspired by hilarious memories of a childhood etiquette class, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher conjures up the world of a ten-year-old studying manners. Mrs. Mannerly is a demanding teacher, and no student in her thirty-six years of etiquette

Daisy Miller

Author : Daniel Mark Fogel
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daisy Miller written by Daniel Mark Fogel and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged. American teenager Daisy miller was on a holiday--and Europe might never recover. From Switzerland to Rome, she caused scandals everywhere: because Daisy Miller did w"hatever" she wanted, with "whomever" she wanted, "whenever "she chose. And she truly didn't care what society thought. But Winterbourne, a dignified, proper, upper-crust young man, was utterly fascinated by her. To the horror of his relatives and friends, Winterbourne helplessly followed Daisy across a continent. Even though Daisy was too much woman for WInterbourne to every understand... And even though Daisy Miller might be a danger to herself.

Good Intentions

Author : Agnès Desarthe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007100958
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Good Intentions written by Agnès Desarthe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a sly, wry novel about how hard it is to do good Sonia is finally settling down. With her husband Julian, she buys a flat in an apartment block in an up-and-coming quarter of the city. And she is pregnant with her first child. Family life begins and it feels good. Yet her new apartment, it is soon obvious, is not the haven she had hoped. And Sonia's beliefs in a decent, peaceful world, her disgust over racism, over poverty, soon make life very difficult for her as she allows herself to be drawn into a vicious and deeply unpleasant war between the odious apartment caretakers and a sad, lost widower who reaches out to her for help. When the threats and bullying slide beyond her control, Sonia is forced to realise that the cruelty of the world cannot simply be covered up with good intentions. With sly wit and a misleadingly light touch, Agnes Desarthe has created an unsettling picture of the world through an apartment building and shown how, with the best will in the world, it can sometimes be the hardest thing of all to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

The Comedy of Manners

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579204
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Manners written by Kenneth Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.

The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham

Author : Newell W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806560
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham written by Newell W. Sawyer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,