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Author: George Etherege
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-10-22
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0713681934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revised reprint of this classic drama text with the addition of anew section on Recent Stage History and Critical Interpretation.
Author: George Etherege
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Published: 1735
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott McMillin
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Sir George Etherege
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Published: 1720
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Etherege
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-02-07
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1474289517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. The play's imaginative brilliance depends upon its author's ability to hint at the dark abyss of passion and emotional violence at whose edge the modish denizens of the town perform their graceful ballet. Its seemingly casual construction and wanton breaches of comic decorum mask a ferocious artistic control designed to upset the complacency of the audience's moral, social and aesthetic assumptions by luring them into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' they ought to deplore. It is at once among the funniest and the most unsettling of comedies in English. The full, modernized play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while its engaging introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performance history (including Nicholas Hytner's 2007 modern-dress version) and demonstrates Etherege's linguistic finesse. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary and an annotated bibliography. The New Mermaids plays offer: · Modernized versions of the play text edited to the highest textual standards · Fully annotated student editions with obscure words explained and critical, contextual and staging insight provided on each page · Full Introductions analyzing context, themes, author background and stage history
Author: Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-04-14
Total Pages: 1559
ISBN-13: 019160528X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should shape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University
Author: George Etherege
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Published: 1669
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Roger Currie
Publisher: www.BookLocker.com
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1591138973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrie breaks down the "Four Modes of Verbal Communication" to help readers better understand why men exhibit the behavior they do towards the women they are either interested in dating or having a few episodes of casual sex with.
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-06-13
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1408144263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.
Author: Stephanie Kate Strohm
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-11-04
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1368027032
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