Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Elze (Author), L. Dora Schmitz (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original wo...

Mistress Davenant: The Dark Lady Of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1913)

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Acheson (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number o...

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Report copyright infringementby George Pierce Baker (Author)"Dramatic Technique" by George Pierce Baker offers a comprehensive exploration of the art and craft of playwriting. A cornerstone text in the study of dramatic literature, this book delves into the essential elements of crafting compelling and effective plays for the stage. Baker meticulously examines the intricacies of dramatic construction, offering insights into character development, plot structure, dialogue, and stagecraft. This...

George Alexander Stevens and the Lecture on Heads

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Kahan (Author)In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. The Lecture was first presented in London in 1764 and became a staple in the English-speaking theaters of the world for the remainder of the eighteenth century. It amassed a fortune for its creator, George Alexander Stevens, was copied and adapted by doz...

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Report copyright infringementby Willy Bang-Kaug (Author)Materials for the Study of the Old English Drama, Volume 12, edited by Willy Bang-Kaug, offers a detailed compilation of essential resources for scholars and enthusiasts of early English dramatic works. This volume provides valuable insights into the historical context and literary evolution of Old English plays. Delving into the rich tapestry of early dramatic literature, this collection serves as an indispensable reference for understa...

Modified Rapture: Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Fischler (Author)The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune that his less prosperous playwriting predecessors could scarcely have imagined. The Savoy operas-so called after the theater at which most of them were originally produced-were comedies. But comedy, in its traditional form, was hardly congenial t...

The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn Gajowski (Editor), Phyllis Rackin (Editor)The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyll...

An Account Of The Systems Of Husbandry V2: Adopted In The More Improved Districts Of Scotland

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Report copyright infringementby John Sinclair (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of...

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Report copyright infringementby Martineau De Soleinne (Author)This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imp...

Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince

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Report copyright infringementby J. C. B. Petropoulos (Author)As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than "fame" or "glory." Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral tradition." When broken down into its twin constituents, "words" and "actions" or "deeds," a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book i...

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Report copyright infringementby Kirby Farrell (Author)Using a combination of anthropological and psychoanalytic methods, Farrell relates the fantasies of "play-death" to the Renaissance belief that through self-effacement an individual may achieve autonomy in the family and society. Farrell develops a wide-ranging analysis of cultural responses to the human dread of death and makes Shakespeare's art a lens that brings into unusually sharp focus Renaissance social structure, gender relations, ...

Dramatic Music: Catalogue of Full Scores in the Collection of the Library of Congress

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar G. T. Sonneck (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Num...

The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete From the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson an

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Johnson (Author), George Steevens (Author)This is Volume 19 of "The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere," a comprehensive collection featuring the complete plays of William Shakespeare accompanied by extensive notes from various commentators. Printed from the best editions of Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, this edition offers readers a rich understanding of Shakespeare's works through the lens of eighteenth-century scholarship. Included are detail...

Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition: The Real Role of Literature, Catharsis, Music and Dance in the POETICS

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Scott (Author)This book revolutionizes the 1000-year old tradition that stems from the first commentaries on the Poetics by the Arabic scholars. (No commentary exists from antiquity or Byzantine times.) Starting with those scholars, Aristotle's treatise has always been thought to be about poetic-literary theory, with tragedy being its paradigm. Scott demonstrates, however, that Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE) employs poiesis not in the way universally assume...

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Von Schiller (Author)Love and Intrigue is a play written by German playwright Friedrich von Schiller. It is a tragedy that explores themes of love, class, and power. The story follows the relationship between Ferdinand, a nobleman, and Luise, a middle-class musician's daughter. Despite their love for each other, their relationship is doomed due to the class differences between them and the political machinations of Ferdinand's father, the president. T...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Rance Redman (Author)A thrilling story about a young black male, his angry triumph over abandonment is made by committing the ultimate sin. In a tale of murder and sexuality, Heart- a southern Black college student filled with bitterness and resentment, finds in the error of his dead beat father's inhumanity the divine stage of manhood: forgiveness. Capturing the essence of the author's experience in this semi-autobiographic tale, an unbelievable plot unfold...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Ellis (Author)Dick of Devonshire by Thomas Heywood dramatises England's disastrous 1625 Cadiz expedition through the story of a foot-soldier turned national hero. For the first time, The Revels Plays publishes a scholarly modern-spelling edition of this unduly overlooked play, together with an anthology of its source material. The play, written in 1626, exists in only one contemporary manuscript, now contained in MS Egerton 1994. There is no evidence that ...

Faith and Folly in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies

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Report copyright infringementby R. Chris Jr. Hassel (Author)An enduring debate among scholars has focused on the degree to which Shakespeare's plays are indebted to the Christian culture in which they were created and the manner of demonstrating that indebtedness. R. Chris Hassel, Jr. points out informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes present in Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, an...

Spanish-English Bilingual Short Stories for Kids: 12 Fun 5-Minute Stories with Side-by-Side English and Spanish to Boost Vocabulary and Keep Kids Exci

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Report copyright infringementby World Voice Bridge (Author)Help Your Child Build Real Bilingual Confidence in Just 5 Minutes a Day With Fun Stories That Make English and Spanish Feel NaturalPerfect for curious readers ages 6 to 8, this engaging bilingual storybook helps kids expand vocabulary, strengthen reading skills, and enjoy learning two languages through short, exciting stories they will actually want to read again.Many children begin learning Spanish, but once the basics are introduced...

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Report copyright infringementby William Butler Yeats (Author)"Plays and Controversies" offers a profound look into the creative and critical mind of W. B. Yeats, one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. This essential collection brings together several of Yeats's innovative dramatic works alongside a series of insightful essays and letters that trace the turbulent early years of the Irish dramatic movement.The volume features plays such as the celebrated "Four Plays for Dance...

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Report copyright infringementby James Morgan Pryse (Author)"The Adorers of Dionysos (Bakchai)" is a profound exploration of Euripides' classic tragedy, viewed through the lens of esoteric mysticism and spiritual philosophy. James Morgan Pryse provides an insightful translation and commentary on "The Bacchae", delving into the symbolic and ritualistic significance of the Dionysian mysteries. The work examines the tension between the rational, ordered mind and the ecstatic, primal forces of nat...

Vehicle for Performance: Acting the Messenger in Greek Tragedy

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Dickin (Author)"Just as naturally happens with actors in tragedies where he who wears the mask of a messenger or servant gains glory and takes the lead while he who bears the crown and sceptre is not listened to when he speaks..."-Plutarch This book investigates the transformation of the Tragic Messenger, traditionally a minor supporting character in Greek drama who brought news from off stage, into one of the leading acting roles in ancient drama. It ...

A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

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Report copyright infringementby Eugenia Zuroski (Author)Eighteenth-century literature is weirder than we realize. A Funny Thing invites readers to be taken by its oddities, its silliness, and its absurdities - both because reading this way is fun, and because this challenges colonialism's disciplinary epistemes of propriety that have consistently bound liberal selfhood to extractive capitalism. Focusing on three aesthetic modes largely unnamed in existing studies of the period's literature - ...

The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin

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Report copyright infringementby Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator), Simon Franklin (Introduction by)The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was written during Stalin's regime and could not be published until many years after its author's death.When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates--including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch--his a...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Gossett (Author), Evelyn Gajowski (Editor)There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, Shakespeare and Textual Theory traces the explanatory underpinnings of these changes through the centuries. After providing an...

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Mossman (Author)'Revenge is a kind of wild justice...' (Francis Bacon). Euripides' "Hecuba" is dominated by the vengeance which Hecuba takes on the faithless Polymestor, and explores in a complex and profound manner the potential for revenge as a subject for tragedy. The sacrifice of Polyxena is in counterpoint to the revenge action; the whole is set in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of Troy. The combination of plots creates one of Euripides' most eff...

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Report copyright infringementby Querida Funck (Author)What does it cost to be heard?In Constance Fenimore Woolson's quietly devastating story Miss Grief (1877), a celebrated young writer in Rome meets a persistent stranger-an older woman who begs him to read her play. What begins as polite dismissal turns into uneasy admiration as he discovers that the "madwoman" at his door may be the truer artist of the two. Through the smallest gestures of kindness and cruelty, Woolson exposes the gulf bet...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Kern Paster (Author)Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Pasterexamines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the visible social body and the history of the subject's body as experienced from within.Focusin...

Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies

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Report copyright infringementby Diana E. Henderson (Editor), Kyle Sebastian Vitale (Editor)Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies, resources and tools recently developed, updated and used by a diverse range of contributors in Great Britain, Australia, Asia and the United States. Contributors explore how these digital resources meet classroom needs and help facilitate conversations abou...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Rowland (Author)In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in early modern theatre history. Rowland contextualizes and historicizes this important contemporary of Shakespeare, locating him on the geographic and cultural map of London through the business Heywood conducts in his writing. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attentio...

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Report copyright infringementby Alistair McCallum (Author)The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist. Along with a clear, easy-to-follow description of the plot, each book contains plenty of quotations from the text - with simple explanations of any unfamiliar words and phrases - and some thought-provoking comments from critics, past and present. The Shakespeare Handbooks include a few intriguing Shakespearean facts ...

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Report copyright infringementby B. K. De Fabris (Editor), Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Author)Bj rnstjerne Martinius Bj rnson (8. December 1832 - 26. April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit", becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate. With "The Newly Married Couple" (1865), virtually ...