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Author : William Congreve
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Library of William Congreve written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald McKenzie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191538140
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Works of William Congreve written by Donald McKenzie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this edition is dedicated. During that time McKenzie uncovered new verse and letters, collated Congreve's texts, recorded their complicated textual history, constructed appendices that shed light on the dramatic context in which Congreve worked, and examined how his contemporaries received Congreve's work. More importantly, McKenzie has convincingly re-evaluated Congreve's works and life to transform our image of the man and his reputation. McKenzie here follows the editorial practice suggested in two early editions of the Works published by Congreve's friend, the bookseller Jacob Tonson, in 1710 and 1719. These three volumes follow a plan similar to that in the Tonson edition, with The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, and Love for Love collected in the first, a central volume with The Way of the World, and a final volume with Congreve's novel Incognita, some of his prose works, letters, and later verse. In each case, Congreve's work is left to speak for itself, unencumbered by intrusive notes, textual apparatus, or collations, which are gathered instead near the end of each volume. This edition will be an invaluable resource for scholars for many years to come. It is a monument to McKenzie's own scholarship as well as to the integrity of William Congreve.
Author : William Congreve
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198118848
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Works of William Congreve written by William Congreve and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.
Author : Congreve William
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318961825
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Library of William Congreve written by Congreve William and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : William UPCOTT
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of ... William Upcott, etc written by William UPCOTT and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Erskine-Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134782632
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book William Congreve written by Howard Erskine-Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : London : Benn ; Totowa, N.J : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book William Congreve written by Brian Morris and published by London : Benn ; Totowa, N.J : Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ... written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Library
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Total Pages : 756 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175159X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ways of the World written by Laura J. Rosenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing its implications and consequences. Rooted in the Stuart ambition to raise the status of England through two crucial investments—global traffic, including the slave trade, and cultural sophistication—this intensified global orientation led to the creation of global mercantile networks and to the rise of an urban British elite who drank Ethiopian coffee out of Asian porcelain at Ottoman-inspired coffeehouses. Restoration drama exposed cosmopolitanism's most embarrassing and troubling aspects, with such writers as Joseph Addison, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and William Wycherley dramatizing the emotional and ethical dilemmas that imperial and commercial expansion brought to light. Altering standard narratives about Restoration drama, Laura J. Rosenthal shows how the reinvention of theater in this period—including technical innovations and the introduction of female performers—helped make possible performances that held the actions of the nation up for scrutiny, simultaneously indulging and ridiculing the violence and exploitation being perpetuated. In doing so, Ways of the World reveals an otherwise elusive consistency between Restoration genres (comedy, tragedy, heroic plays, and tragicomedy), disrupts conventional understandings of the rise and reception of early capitalism, and offers a fresh perspective on theatrical culture in the context of the shifting political realities of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : Laurence Bartlett
Publisher : Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book William Congreve, a Reference Guide written by Laurence Bartlett and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069280
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of its place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognise Shakespeare.
Author : Donald F. Bond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134847807
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Literary History of England written by Donald F. Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students. The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. Reviewing the first edition, The Times Literary Supplement commented: ‘in inclusiveness and in judgment it has few rivals of its kind’. This third volume covers the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1789) and is co-authored by George Sherburn and Donald F. Bond (both at the University of Chicago).
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Library of William Andrews Clark, Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785273736
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Congreve was deeply involved in the events of his turbulent times. That involvement reveals itself in works which have sometimes been regarded as entirely unengaged with the realities of his society. This book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688. A strong supporter of the new world ushered in by William III and Mary, Congreve fought against the reactionary politics of the Jacobite opposition.
Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421419351
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Comic Democracies written by Angus Fletcher and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Invites its readers to note the leaders and people who are willing and able to laugh, with and at themselves . . . Our political life may depend upon it.” —The Review of Politics For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two centuries, this pragmatic approach to extending the franchise has been displaced by more idealistic democratic philosophies that focus instead on promoting liberal principles and human rights. But in the wake of the recent “democracy recession” in the Middle East, the Third World, and the West itself, there has been renewed interest in finding practical sources of popular rule. Comic Democracies joins in the search by exploring the value of the old comic tools for growing democracy today. Drawing on new empirical research from the political and cognitive sciences, Angus Fletcher deftly analyzes the narrative elements of two dozen stage plays, novels, romances, histories, and operas written by such authors as Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, William Congreve, John Gay, Henry Fielding, and Washington Irving. He unearths five comic techniques used to foster democratic behaviors in antiquity and the Renaissance, then traces the role of these techniques in Tom Paine’s Common Sense, Jefferson’s preamble to the Declaration of Independence, Washington’s farewell address, Mercy Otis Warren’s federalist history of the Revolution, Frederick Douglass’s abolitionist orations, and other documents that played a pivotal role in the development of the American Republic. After recovering these lost chapters of our democratic past, Comic Democracies concludes with a draft for the future, using the old methods of comedy to envision a modern democracy—rooted in the diversity, ingenuity, and power of popular art. “Fletcher’s main theory is convincing and will open up new fields of inquiry. This accessible work is for those interested in political science, cultural history, and comic theory as well as classical literature.” —Choice
