Comedies

Author : Carlo Goldoni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442622722

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Five Comedies by Carlo Goldoni Pdf

One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice. Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and “The Holiday Trilogy” (Off to the Country, Adventures in the Country, and Back from the Country). Editor Michael Hackett provides an introduction to Goldoni and his performance tradition for directors, actors, and designers, revealing the masterful construction of Goldoni’s plays, while an afterword by Cesare de Michelis carefully reconstructs the playwright’s life and times.

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli,James B. Atkinson
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840255

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The Comedies of Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli,James B. Atkinson Pdf

Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual edition includes all three examples of Machiavelli's comedic art: sparkling translations of his farcical masterpiece, The Mandrake; of his version of Terence's The Woman From Andros; and of his Plautus-inspired Clizia--works whose genre afforded Machiavelli a unique vehicle not only for entertaining audiences but for examining virtue amid the twists and turns of fortune.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603840859

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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies by Anonim Pdf

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one’s lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius’ play called Synapothnescontes as Three’s a Shroud. . . . Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked. This is a book to be used and enjoyed. --Raymond J. Clark, The Classical Outlook

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1623
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435018285262

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Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000588620

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Film, Environment, Comedy by Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann Pdf

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Seagull Library of German
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1803090499

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Comedies by Robert Walser Pdf

This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era. The short plays presented here, inspired by the German theater Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser's work they are shot through with a humor that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness. Gathering all of Walser's plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, Comedies will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2QIW

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Comedies by Molière Pdf

Author : George Henry Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066121359

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Comedies by George Henry Calvert Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : PSU:000066489306

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Film Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : San Francisco Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119349707

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Supplementary Catalogue of Books Added to the San Francisco Free Public Library Since May, 1884. No. 5, 1888 by San Francisco Public Library Pdf

Author : San Francisco Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B131118

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Catalogue of the San Francisco Free Public Library by San Francisco Public Library Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Biography
ISBN : OSU:32435023900574

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Oarses-Zygia by William Smith Pdf

Author : Samuel Timmins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590983170

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Books on Shakespeare by Samuel Timmins Pdf

Author : Birmingham Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015033640437

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Books for a Reference Library by Birmingham Public Libraries Pdf

Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : London (England)
ISBN : PRNC:32101007031261

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London and Its Environs by Karl Baedeker (Firm) Pdf