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Doctor Faustus
Av Christopher Marlowe, Paul Menzer
Häftad, 2018
159 kr
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This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries.As well as the complete text of the play, this re-edited New Mermaids edition …
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering aunt. Like …
London Assurance
Av Dion Boucicault, James L. Smith
Häftad, 2004
220 kr
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Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey. London Assurance …
Relapse
Av John Vanbrugh, Bernard Harris
Häftad, 1987
187 kr
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Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion for sentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformed rake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms of a merry widow, neither of which he is able to withstand. More memorable than the straying husband, …
Critic
Av Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Crane
Häftad, 1989
187 kr
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The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer in the form of the …
Recruiting Officer
Häftad, 1991
106 kr
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Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, have been called 'the last worthwhile comedies of the Restoration tradition'. Written during Farquhar's stint in Shrewsbury as part of a recruiting mission in 1704-5, The Recruiting Officer is a buoyant, whimsical piece …
New Way to Pay Old Debts
Av Philip Massinger, T.W. Cruik
Häftad, 1993
187 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.
Witch
Av Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Schafer
Häftad, 1994
187 kr
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The Witch (1615/16?), categorised by its author as 'a tragi-comedy', pits the intrigues of a group of Italian aristocrats against the malevolent practices of Hecate and her witches' coven, leaving the audience with the impression that human malevolence is by far the fiercer and more effective. This …
Eastward Ho!
Av Ben Jonson, George Chapman m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
187 kr
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This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London …
Witch of Edmonton
Av John Ford, Thomas Dekker m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
187 kr
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It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stage seems to have provided …
Old Wife's Tale
Av George Peele, Charles Whitworth
Häftad, 1996
187 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.
Malcontent
Häftad, 1999
203 kr
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"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen …
Love for Love
Av William Congreve, Malcolm Kelsall
Häftad, 1999
187 kr
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More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is now accounted Congreve's best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce manifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences so enjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a …
Every Man in His Humour
Av Ben Jonson, Robert N. Watson
Häftad, 1998
187 kr
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Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the 1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England, not Italy - is a kind of dramatised Do-It-Yourself kit on how to bluff one's way in Elizabethan London. Although Roman New Comedy, in which a crafty slave helps a …
Dutch Courtesan
Häftad, 1997
187 kr
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Although it was written shortly before or after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 and performed by the boy company at Blackfriars, this play foreshadows the light ladies and callous gallants of Restoration comedy. Passion is a scourge, love is humiliation, and friends might as well be enemies. …
Gammer Gurton's Needle
Häftad, 1997
187 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 …
Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Av Thomas Middleton, Alan Brissenden
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either …
Knight of the Burning Pestle
Av Francis Beaumont, Michael Hattaway
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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'Let him kill a lion with a pestle, husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.' So exclaims the Grocer's wife who, with her husband and servants, is attending one of the London's elite playhouses where a theatre comany has just begun to perform. Peeved at the fact that all the plays they see are …
School for Scandal
Av Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Ann Blake
Häftad, 2004
185 kr
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Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much younger wife in the hope that she …
Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans
A New Mermaids Anthology
Av G.A. Lester
Häftad, 2002
236 kr
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"Take example, all ye that this do hear or see..." The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this …
Women Beware Women
Av Thomas Middleton, William C. Carroll
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century, but Middleton can …
Provoked Wife
Av John Vanbrugh, James L. Smith
Häftad, 2003
203 kr
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In this late Restoration comedy Vanbrugh not only pushes the unhappily married couple, which had been good for no more than a raucous subplot in earlier comedies of manners, centre-stage - he also makes the audience sympathise with the wife: The only thing Sir John and Lady Brute agree on is that …
Marriage A-La-Mode
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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Dryden'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 …
Lady Windermere's Fan
Av Oscar Wilde, Ian Small
Häftad, 2002
185 kr
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'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her suspicions about an affair Lord Windermere appears …
Epicoene or The Silent Woman
Av Ben Jonson, Roger Holdsworth
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy in any language'. Its title signals …
Woman Killed With Kindness
Av Thomas Heywood, Brian Scobie
Häftad, 2003
203 kr
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A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord as such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the husband's part. At a time when husbands were not only allowed but obliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definition of 'lawful and …
Rivals
Av Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tiffany Stern
Häftad, 2004
185 kr
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Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the …
She Stoops to Conquer
Av Oliver Goldsmith, James Ogden
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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The action of She Stoops to Conquer (1773) is largely confined to a night and a day in Squire Hardcastle's somewhat dilapidated country house: Young Marlow, on his way there to meet the bride his father has chosen for him, loses his way and arrives at the house assuming it is an inn. The prospect …
Roaring Girl
Av Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl' may outrage her society with her …
Tamburlaine
Av Christopher Marlowe, Anthony B. Dawson
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who …
