Captain Underwit

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781681145709

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Captain Underwit by Anonim Pdf

A country comedy about the absurdly corrupt purchases of military titles. Captain Underwit has succeeded in becoming a “paper” Captain by bribing the Lieutenant with favors and a below-value land-purchase. Underwit then sends his servant Thomas to purchase books to prepare him to actually carry out military duties, but Thomas instead purchases the “Shakespeare” Folio, and other impractical or irrelevant books in a manner that echoes Don Quixote’s belief he could imitate the actions of knights in romance novels. Meanwhile, Underwit withdraws from London into his father-in-law Sir Richard’s country estate. Underwit hires Captain Sackburie to build his military acumen, but Sackburie only has him perform a few military dances before they escape to drink at a tavern. The plot then digresses from these heavy subjects to romantic entanglements as Sir Richard’s wife (Lady) attempts to have an affair with Sir Francis, and Sister flirts with Mr. Courtwell, and Lady’s maid, Mistress Dorothy, devises a fraudulent scheme to make suitors falsely believe she comes from an aristocratic family to secure a husband. There are gems under this visage of simplicity, as Engine is attempting to bribe his way into a monopoly on periwigs, and Device the poet recites elegant songs to Sister that he is not sure if he has plagiarized. The introductory materials explain that the plagiarism of the “Catch” dice-game-song that repeats in the “James Shirley”-bylined Poems &c. (1646) re-affirms Percy’s ghostwriting of most “Shirley”-bylined plays as well as Captain, instead of proving “Shirley’s” authorship of this group of texts, as critics have previously claimed. “A classic English country comedy from the British Renaissance era, and now ably translated by Anna Faktorovich into Modern English for an appreciative readership with an interest in the literature and stage dramas of the time. Captain Underwit is an eloquent, unique, and highly recommended contribution to academic library collections… It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject…” —Midwest Book Review, James Cox, The Literary Fiction Shelf Exordium Plot and Staging “Introduction to Captain Underwit” (1883) by A. H. Bullen Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises

Author : Katherine Romack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351952965

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Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections by Katherine Romack Pdf

Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Cavendish wrote 25 plays in the 1650s and 60s, making her one of the most prolific playwrights”man or woman”of the seventeenth century. The essays contained in this volume fit together as studies of various sorts of influence, both literary and historical, setting Cavendish's appropriation of Shakespearean characters and plot structures within the context of the English Civil Wars and the Fronde. The essays trace Shakespeare's influence on Cavendish, explore the political implications of Cavendish's contribution to Shakespeare's reputation, and investigate the politics of influence more generally. The collection covers topics ranging from Cavendish's strategic use of Shakespeare to establish her own reputation to her adaptation of Shakespeare's martial imagery, moral philosophy, and marriage plots, as well as the conventions of cross dressing on stage. Other topics include Shakespeare and Cavendish read aloud; Cavendish's formally hybrid appropriation of Shakespearean comedy and tragedy; her transformation of Shakespearean women on trial; and her re-imagining of Shakespearean models of sexuality and pleasure.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547506454

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A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Various Pdf

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Henry Ten Eyck Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000003023563

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The First Duchess of Newcastle and Her Husband as Figures in Literary History by Henry Ten Eyck Perry Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781681145716

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The Variety by Anonim Pdf

A fragmentary comedy about the corruption of the judicial and monarchical systems in charge of granting aristocratic titles based on appearance instead of merit. This comedy includes several devices that are uniquely typical of Jonson’s authorial style, including the extraordinary number of five marriages in the resolution, and the intricate descriptions of the significance of outward appearance (in dance, clothing, makeup and gossip) in distinguishing anybody in Britain as superior or inferior. At the onset of the plot, Sir William is hoping to marry the wealthy-widow, Lady Beaufield, to gain access to her fortune. In parallel, Simpleton’s wealthy-widow Mother is hoping to marry a knight so she can gain the aristocratic title of a Lady. Meanwhile, Simpleton is courting Beaufield’s daughter, Lucy, who clearly favors her other suitor, Newman. Simpleton devises several schemes to win an advantage by hiring jeerers to ridicule Newman, as well as hiring Voluble to give Newman a false prophecy to manipulate him toward whoring and drinking. By the end, Simpleton even attempts to kidnap Lucy to force her into marriage. In the background of these various courtships, the French dance teacher, Galliard, is tutoring his wealthy students in dance. And Voluble and Nice are teaching proper manners, dress and other outward signs of aristocratic breeding in their Female Academy. These seemingly silly and pretty tropes are clouding the fact that Galliard confesses he has escaped being executed for attempting to overthrow the French King in 1632, and Voluble is repeatedly accused of witchcraft. More importantly, the narrative explains the corrupt process that was involved in bribing judges and administrators into allowing a wealthy gentry landowner, like Mother, to purchase her way into the aristocracy through a vacant baronet title. Mother merely has to choose between going through the ladyfying schooling herself, or completely negating her burden by hiring an actress, such as Nice (the chambermaid), to pretend to be her in public appearances. The dialogue refers to several people who were granted aristocratic titles by this corrupt process, starting with the 1st Lord of Lorne of Scotland in 1439, and as late as the Duke of Buckingham in 1623. Many of the contextual references mention the Percys’ Northumberland estate’s Scottish neighbors, as well as other Percy-associated places and people in the Buckingham Palace and Newcastle; thus, this play is likely to have been closeted by Percy until after his death because Jonson was criticizing the Percys’ involvement in these title-purchasing schemes. Percy (as the primary ghostwriter) and Jonson (as the secondary) had written about knighthood-purchasing and James I’s trade in titles to his Scottish and Scottish-adjacent comrades in Eastward Ho! These frank confessions about corruption in the monarchy led to Jonson’s temporary imprisonment in 1605. This volume includes translations of all of Jonson’s authentic letters. These include the letter he wrote in 1605, during this Eastward imprisonment, wherein Jonson asks Percy to help free him from being implicated in seditious remarks that he claims were Percy’s portion of the composition. The annotations across Variety provide a myriad of scholarly revelations, supported with precise evidence. One of these is new proof for the misdating for several antique-like forgeries of broadsheet ballads. Introductory sections explain why this play has been mis-attributed to “William Cavendish”, and the complex biographical overlaps between the Jonson and “John Donne” bylines and handwriting styles. The historical introduction to the types of dance-instructors Variety is satirizing is assisted by the translation from French into English of fragments from Apologie de la Danse or Apology for the Dance by “Par F. de Lauze” (1623). Acronyms and Figures Exordium Plot and Staging The Letters of Ben Jonson and “John Donne” “Francois de Lauze’s” Apology for the Dance (1623) Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : English literature
ISBN : SRLF:AA0006823868

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Harvard Studies in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780485113938

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A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature by Gordon Williams Pdf

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Author : Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134676415

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The Annals of English Drama 975-1700 by Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim Pdf

An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.

Author : Frederick Gard Fleay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100889658

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Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Jonson (continued)-Zouch. Plays by anonymous authors. Masks by anonymous authors. University plays [in] English. University plays [in] Latin. Translations. Addenda. Additions on Middleton from Mr. A.H. Bullen by Frederick Gard Fleay Pdf

Author : Arthur Henry Bullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:B3541524

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Old English Plays by Arthur Henry Bullen Pdf

Author : Adolphus William Ward
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English drama
ISBN : 8171566855

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A History of English Dramatic Literature by Adolphus William Ward Pdf

... The Most Exhaustive And Important In Its Field... Thus, The Judgment Of An Outstanding 19Th Century Literary Figure (See Below On Ward S Masterly History Of English Dramatic Literature). It Is A Judgment That Has Stood Up Remarkably Well In The Passing Of Almost A Century Since The Work Was First Published. Students And Scholars Alike Will Find This Famous History An Invaluable Source Book On English Literature.Ward S Lucid Survey Starts With The Origin Of The Drama In England And The Beginnings Of Regular Drama. After An Excellent Account Of Shakespeare S Predecessors There Is A Long And Astute Section On Shakespeare Himself, Including A Discussion Of The Dramatist S Early Influence On The Continent, Especially In Germany. Volume Ii Also Covers Ben Jonson And The Later Elizabethans, Concluding With The Merits And Defects Of Beaumont And Fletcher. Volume Iii Ends The Work With An Examination Of The Later Stuart Drama When Prose Had Become Permanently The Vehicle Of Dramatic Speech In English Comedy And The Decay Of Tragedy. From An Early Review By Richard Burton In The Dial : ... The Work Is Beyond All Compare The Most Exhaustive And Important ... In Its Field .... When This Monument Of Scholarly Investigation Appeared, In 1874, It Was At Once Recognized As Authoritative, And Has Held The Position Ever Since.... Dr. Ward S Survey Of The Native Drama......Stands Alone Among Scholarly Achievements By Englishmen.The Prime Merit Of The Work, Aside From Thoroughness, Good Judgment In Ample Illustration, And The Deduction Of Sound Principles Therefrom, Lies In This Giving Of Due Attention To The History Of The Stage, While At The Same Time Keeping The Student To A Realization Of The Drama S Literary Splendors ... Drama In Its Technique As Well As In Its Imaginative Triumphs ... ... Take His Admirable Monograph (Vol. I, Chap. Iv) On Shakespeare .... It Would Be Difficult, Even In The Mass Of Similar Attempts, To Indicate Another Eighty Pages Which Tell So Much So Well, And Are So Little Open To Criticism... This Critic S Independence And Originality Of Thought Appear To Advantage In His Closing Remarks On The Tailend Of The Stuart Drama.

Author : Frederick Gard Fleay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English drama
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065041406

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Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Jonson (continued) by Frederick Gard Fleay Pdf

Author : Fleay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00026793

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A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559-1642 by Fleay Pdf

Author : Katharine Lee Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNVUI

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English Drama by Katharine Lee Bates Pdf

Author : Frederick Gard Fleay
Publisher : London Reeves and Turner 1890.
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : History
ISBN : PRNC:32101007997396

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A Chronicle History of the London Stage 1559-1642 by Frederick Gard Fleay Pdf