The 11 Comedies - Volume 1
Author: Aristophanes
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Published: 2011-11-27
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781467993692
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Author: Aristophanes
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Published: 2011-11-27
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781467993692
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1995-07-10
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 0679443630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies—with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love—capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth. This volume contains The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and it's companion piece, Romeo and Juliet, which Tony Tanner describes in his introduction as "a tragedy by less than one minute." The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre.
Author: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0810844249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 2009-08-26
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0307420590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Author: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 600
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 1192
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 544
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dante
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 870
ISBN-13: 0691237662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as Dante's vocabulary, his characters, and the historical sources of incidents in the poem. Professor Singleton provides a clear and profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have previously confused readers of The Divine Comedy.
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 0674996631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe era of Old Comedy (ca. 485–ca. 380 BC), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. But the work of many other poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members, with Aristophanes, of the canonical Old Comic Triad, survives in fragments.