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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors

AvWilliam Shakespeare,Charles Whitworth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

2 522 kr

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Often under-rated as a mechanical farce, The Comedy of Errors, hilarious in its exploitation of mistaken identity, masterly in construction, and brilliant in linguistic invention, is the first of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, deeply moving in the reunions and reconciliations of its conclusion. This, the first major edition since 1988, bases itself directly on the 1623 Folio text and provides helpful explanatory notes. The Introduction, appreciative of the play's theatrical success over the centuries, argues that it was specifically written for and performed at the Gray's Inn Christmas revels on 28 December 1594, among the first composed by Shakespeare for his new company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Discussion of the play's origins argues that the immediate source for the frame plot (Egeon and his family) was not Gower's Confessio Amantis, is usually assumed, but a recent Elizabethan short novel, Lawrence Twine's Pattern of Painful Adventures. The main plot is unquestionably based on the Roman dramatist Plautus's Menaechmi, here reprinted in its entirety in a modernized version of William Warner's translation (1595).

Old Wife's Tale

AvGeorge Peele,Charles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

213 kr

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New Mermaids are modern-spelling, fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

Gammer Gurton's Needle

AvCharles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

213 kr

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Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university production, the play's doggerel rhymes, its village characters and their dialect speech, its seemingly innocuous plot and its Rabelaisian humour are the very opposite of academic or neo-classical. Yet its anonymous author's ingenuity manifests itself at every turn, not least in the multiple ironies evoked when Diccon the trickster makes Hodge believe that he will conjure the devil by kissing his backside in a travesty of religious or masonic oath-taking.

48 Hours to Hammelburg

Patton's Secret Mission

AvCharles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

185 kr

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Collection of the Supplies, and Ways and Means; From the Revolution to the Present Time [microform]

AvCharles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

238 kr

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List of the English, Scots, and Irish Nobility

Archbishops, and Bishops; ... Attornies, and Sollicitors General. Specifying the Dates in Which They Were Severally Created. Compiled by Charles Whitworth, ...

AvCharles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

238 kr

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State of the Trade of Great Britain in Its Imports and Exports, Progressively from the Year 1697

... in Two Parts. with a Preface and Introduction, ... by Sir Charles Whitworth, ...

AvCharles Whitworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

259 kr

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List of the English, Scots, and Irish Nobility

Archbishops, and Bishops; ... Attornies, and Sollicitors General. Specifying the Dates in Which They Were Severally Created. Compiled by Charles Whitworth,

AvCharles Whitworth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

364 kr

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