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Book Synopsis Restoration and Eighteenth-century Comedy by : Scott McMillin
Download or read book Restoration and Eighteenth-century Comedy written by Scott McMillin and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1973 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five plays included in this volume William Wycherley's "The Country Wife," Sir George Etherege's "The Man of Mode," William Congreve's "The Way of the World," Sir Richard Steele's "The Conscious Lovers" and Richard B. Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" are the most distinguished comedies written during an especially exciting and innovative period in the London theater and English society. This Norton critical edition offers an authoritative text for each play and a unique collection of documents and critical essays (ranging from Charles Lamb to the present) for a deeper understanding of them.
Book Synopsis Cruelty and Laughter by : Simon Dickie
Download or read book Cruelty and Laughter written by Simon Dickie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.
Book Synopsis Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy by : M. Anderson
Download or read book Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by M. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830 by : Daniel O'Quinn
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830 written by Daniel O'Quinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.
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Book Synopsis The Comedy of the Eighteenth Century by : J. Ahluwalia
Download or read book The Comedy of the Eighteenth Century written by J. Ahluwalia and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration Comedy Has Been Attacked From Different Quarters For Its Immoral¬Ity And Profaneness. Eighteenth Cen¬Tury Comedy Is Very Much The Product Of And Reaction To The Comedy Of The Previous Age. The Author Studies Eighteenth Century Comedy As A Cru¬Sade Against The Immorality And Pro¬Faneness Of The Restoration Comedy. The Study Critically Analyses Works Of Some Of The Major Comedy Writers, Viz., Etherege, Dryden, Wycherley, Shadwell, Congreve Etc. Emphasis On The Reforming Zeal Of The Early-Eighteenth Century Writers, Viz., Cibber, Steele, Vanbrugh, Farquhar Etc. Adds Great Significance To The Book And Enhances Its Importance For The Scholars Of English Literature.
Book Synopsis Sentimental Comedy by : Frank Hale Ellis
Download or read book Sentimental Comedy written by Frank Hale Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimental comedy became a distinctive dramatic form on the London stage in the eighteenth century, featuring a complex blend of humour and pathos. Frank Ellis's authoritative study of the genre expounds a theory of sentimental comedy derived from detailed knowledge of a comprehensive range of plays in this period. Women, the lower classes, money and the past are shown to be typical objects of sentimental attitudes, which are not always merely comic, but also potentially indicative of social revolutions such as the growing sympathy towards negro slaves. The practice of sentimental comedy is illustrated by detailed analysis of sentimental attitudes in ten popular plays from 1696 to 1793. An appendix comprises the texts of The School for Lovers by William Whitehead (1762) and Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault (1793). This major study, providing a wealth of fascinating detail about eighteenth-century performance and stage production, will also appeal to scholars interested in revising the current understanding of sentimentalism.
Book Synopsis The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy by : Brian Corman
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by Brian Corman and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.
Book Synopsis The Four Georges by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book The Four Georges written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comedy in Germany in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century by : Betsy Aikin-Sneath
Download or read book Comedy in Germany in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century written by Betsy Aikin-Sneath and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jane Austen and Comedy by : Erin Goss
Download or read book Jane Austen and Comedy written by Erin Goss and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen’s books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second, Jane Austen’s books are comedies, understandable both through the generic form that ends in marriage after the potential hilarity of romantic adversity and through a more general promise of wish fulfillment. In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Jane Austen and Comedy invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen’s work. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Book Synopsis Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection by : Angelika Zirker
Download or read book Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection written by Angelika Zirker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions – it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker’s character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in everyday communication and opens up the possibility to analyze literary texts from a linguistic perspective. The first two volumes of the series The Dynamics of Wordplay therefore aim at bringing together contributions from linguistics and literary studies, focusing on theoretical issues such as basic techniques of wordplay, and its relationship to genres and discourse traditions. These issues are complemented by a series of case studies on the use of wordplay in individual authors and specific historical contexts. The contributions offer a fresh look on the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay in different communicative settings.
Book Synopsis The Secular Commedia by : Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Download or read book The Secular Commedia written by Wye Jamison Allanbrook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa. Allanbrook mines a rich trove of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the theatrical tropes that underpinned the style. Tracing Enlightenment notions of character and expression back to Greek and Latin writings about comedy and drama, she strips away preoccupations with symphonic form and teleology to reveal anew the kaleidoscopic variety and gestural vitality of the musical surface. In prose as graceful and nimble as the music she discusses, Allanbrook elucidates the idiom of this period for contemporary readers. With notes, musical examples, and a foreword by editors Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology by : Daniel Derrin
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology written by Daniel Derrin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.
Book Synopsis Restoration and Eighteenth-century Comedy by : George Etherege
Download or read book Restoration and Eighteenth-century Comedy written by George Etherege and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition by : J. Douglas Canfield
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy." Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Book Synopsis Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by : Vernon Lee
Download or read book Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
