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Author : Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Rivals. A Comedy written by Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589594
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Rivals of Aristophanes written by David Harvey and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has survived only in tantalising, often tiny, fragments and citations. Modern studies in this field have themselves often been difficult of access. Here an exceptional cast of scholars, including most of the leading international authorities, provides a set of 28 interpretative essays to cover every one of these 'other' poets of Athenian Old Comedy for whom significant evidence survives. The work includes a comprehensive bibliography, and is a landmark in the study of Old Comedy.
Author : Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Rivals: a Comedy in Five Acts written by Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society.
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Rivals and The School for Scandal written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The School for Scandal and The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Farquhar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Twin-rivals. A Comedy written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Taille
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920120X
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Jean de la Taille written by Taille and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean de La Taille's play Les Corrivaus is the comical story of the rivalry between Filadelfe and Euverte for the lovely Fleurdelys. Difficulties are resolved symmetrically, and matrimony is the order at the end of the day--though, in the best Renaissance tradition, the difficulties had appeared grave indeed. The play should appeal to anyone interested in the theatre, but it is of considerable importance to historians of Renaissance drama, since it is generally accepted as the earliest surviving French humanist comedy written in prose, and the first to be based on Italian models. In particular, La Taille draws heavily upon Le Maçon's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. The play also amplifies understanding of numerous conventions of Renaissance drama--especially those related to stagecraft, plot, and thematic treatment--yet La Taille transcends mere conventionality in his skilled treatment of character and plot. He also manages to accomplish his didactic purpose, informing his audience of the foibles of lovers, with a minimum of sententious moralizing.
Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book London Assurance written by Dion Boucicault and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jilly Cooper
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 9781538773529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Rivals written by Jilly Cooper and published by Forever. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be an original streaming series on Hulu! "Fun, sexy and unputdownable--a classic." --Marian Keyes "Flawlessly entertaining." --Helen Fielding "Joyful and mischievous." --Jojo Moyes Fleabag meets Succession as rival TV execs bid for the local franchise in this exuberant romp filled with drama, steam, and comedy. Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630972X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy written by Mario Telò and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760283
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
ISBN 13 : 9780882950921
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The School for Scandal written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of this edition is transcribed from that of George Nettleton, with additions or deletions set off in brackets. Also included are the dedicatory 'Portrait Addressed to Mrs Crewe', Garrick's 'Prologue', and G Colman's 'Epilogue'. Edited by John Loftis, this edition of The School for Scandal for performance and study also includes an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a selected bibliography.
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781499710410
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rivals - A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Complete Edition. The Rivals is a comedy of manners play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts. It was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The Rivals was Sheridan's first play. At the time, he was a young newlywed living in Bath. At Sheridan's insistence, upon marriage his wife Eliza (born Elizabeth Linley) had given up her career as a singer. This was proper for the wife of a "gentleman", but it was difficult because Eliza had earned a substantial income as a performer. Instead, the Sheridans lived beyond their means as they entertained the gentry and nobility with Eliza's singing (in private parties) and Richard's wit. Finally, in need of funds, Richard turned to the only craft that could gain him the remuneration he desired in a short time: he began writing a play. He had over the years written and published essays and poems, and among his papers were numerous unfinished plays, essays and political tracts, but never had he undertaken such an ambitious project as this. In a short time, however, he completed The Rivals. The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town that was legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to "take the waters", which were believed to have healing properties. Bath was much less exclusive than London, and hence it provides an ideal setting for the characters. The plot centres on the two young lovers, Lydia and Jack. Lydia, who reads a lot of popular novels of the time, wants a purely romantic love affair. To court her, Jack pretends to be "Ensign Beverley", a poor officer. Lydia is enthralled with the idea of eloping with a poor soldier in spite of the objections of her guardian, Mrs. Malaprop, a moralistic widow. Mrs. Malaprop is the chief comic figure of the play, thanks to her continual misuse of words that sound like the words she intends to use, but mean something completely different. (The term malapropism was coined in reference to the character.)Elsie Leslie as Lydia Languish in The Rivals, 1899. Photograph by Zaida Ben-Yusuf. Lydia has two other suitors: Bob Acres (a somewhat buffoonish country gentleman), and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, an impoverished and combative Irish gentleman. Sir Lucius pays Lucy to carry love notes between him and Lydia (who uses the name "Delia"), but Lucy is swindling him: "Delia" is actually Mrs. Malaprop. As the play opens, Sir Anthony arrives suddenly in Bath. He has arranged a marriage for Jack, but Jack demurs, saying he is in love already. They quarrel violently. But Jack soon learns through the gossip of Lucy and Fag that the marriage arranged by Sir Anthony is, in fact, with Lydia. He makes a great show of submission to his father, and is presented to Lydia with Mrs. Malaprop's blessing. Jack confides to Lydia that he is only posing as Sir Anthony's son. She annoys Mrs. Malaprop by loudly professing her eternal devotion to "Beverley" while rejecting "Jack Absolute".
Author : Chris Humphreys
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1409138569
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jack Absolute written by Chris Humphreys and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant first outing for a new kind of hero . . . 'Bernard Cornwell is good but Humphreys is better' Historical Novels Review In 1777, Jack Absolute is famous ... as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the REAL Jack Absolute when he disembarks at Portsmouth after four months at sea, and seven years in India ... When his old commander is appointed to lead the army that will crush the American Revolution, Jack's history in the Colonies becomes vital. Years before he was adopted by the Iroquois, knows their language and ways, can rally these vital allies to the King's cause. Yet there is a traitor at the heart of the British army, betraying its every move. From a field of honour in London through the Battle of Saratoga and the hunt for a double agent, Jack must fight revolutionaries, incensed rivals and a malevolent secret society - and all while trying to protect the woman he loves...
