Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists – serie
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The Selected Plays of John Webster
The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law Case
Av John Webster, J. Dollimore m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
898 kr
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The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political, religious and philosophical attitudes, his formal skills and the importance of his plays for understanding …
The Plays of George Etherege
Av Michael Cordner, Michael Cordner
Häftad, 1982
767 kr
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Even among the richly talented generation who wrote for the stage during the Restoration, Etherege was, from the start, considered to be a very special kind of innovator. His first play, The Comical Revenge (1664), with its partisan portrait of the Cavalier gentry during the last years of the …
The Comedies of William Congreve
The Old Batchelour, Love for Love, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World
Av William Congreve, Anthony G. Henderson
Häftad, 1982
762 kr
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The career of William Congreve as comic dramatist was brief but highly successful. From the beginning he showed a useful knack for cultivating influential literary friends and for giving audiences what they were sure to like. Early in 1693, his first comedy, The Old Batchelour, pleased the public …
The Plays of Cyril Tourneur
The Revenger's Tragedy, The Atheist's Tragedy
Av Cyril Tourneur, Parfitt m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
617 kr
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The two plays which make up this volume are of different quality. While no one would claim that The Atheist's Tragedy is a masterpiece, it is an important play because in it the exhortation 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord' is acted upon with unusual consistency, and because stringent `puritan' …
The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton
Häftad, 1978
860 kr
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T. S. Eliot said of the Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) that 'he wrote one tragedy which more than any other play except those of Shakespeare has a profound and permanent moral value and horror': Middleton has increasingly been recognised as one of the most important, if not the …
The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger
The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam
Av Philip Massinger, Colin Gibson m. fl.
Häftad, 1978
908 kr
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This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of Massinger's finest comedies, A New Way to Pay Old …
The Selected Plays of John Marston
Av McDonald Jackson, John Marston m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
1029 kr
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This edition brings five of Marston's most interesting plays together in a readable and helpful form. They are collected with modern spelling, full commentaries, textual notes and introductions, in texts newly edited from the original quartos. A survey of criticism of Marston is included. The …
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1
Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene or the Silent Woman
Av Ben Jonson, Johanna Procter
Häftad, 1989
1029 kr
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This volume contains three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production and embroiled Jonson with the …
The Selected Plays of John Ford
The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Perkin Warbeck
Häftad, 1986
767 kr
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This selection contains the three finest plays of the Stuart dramatist John Ford. The Broken Heart is a classical tragedy of suffering; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's best-known play and one still frequently performed, is a tragic story of limitless ambition and social rivalry expressed in sexual …
The Plays of William Wycherley
Häftad, 1981
1029 kr
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`Mr Wycherley is universally allowed the first place among the English comic poets who have writ since Ben Jonson. His Plain-Dealer is the best comedy that ever was composed in any language.' Yet in spite of the extreme praise many of his contemporaries accorded to his work, William Wycherley …
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2
The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, The New Inn, A Tale of a Tub
Häftad, 1989
1235 kr
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This volume brings together four of Ben Jonson's plays, two of his major works - The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and two from his later oeuvre: The New Inn (1629) and A Tale of a Tub (1633). The Alchemist is a major satire on folly and greed, brilliantly plotted and dazzling in its …
