Farce Of Habit

Author : Jessie Jones,Nicholas Hope,Jamie Wooten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822236863

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Farce of Habit by Jessie Jones,Nicholas Hope,Jamie Wooten Pdf

Comic fireworks explode in FARCE OF HABIT, an absurdly funny Southern-fried romp that takes us back to the Reel ’Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. The proprietor, D. Gene Wilburn, is looking forward to a peaceful weekend on the lake. But there are only two chances of that happening: slim and none. Why, for example, has his wife, Wanelle, picked these three days to white-knuckle her way through caffeine withdrawal? Why is his son Ty’s marriage to Jenna falling apart so fast? Could it have something to do with the French can-can costume Ty is wearing? How on earth would D. Gene’s feisty sister, Maxie, allow herself to get caught up in such a bizarre undercover police assignment? And that’s just his family. If this isn’t enough to thwart D. Gene’s weekend plans, he’s got a gaggle of nuns who’ve converged on the Inn, hell-bent on experiencing a nature retreat—which might be tolerable if D. Gene didn’t have a chronic fear of anything in a habit. Add to this the presence of Jock McNair, a nationally known relationship guru whose colossal ego threatens everyone’s sanity; a shy retiree anxious to cut loose and embrace his “inner caveman” and a couple of wild women who may or may not be who they claim to be. Throw in the storm of the century that’s fast bearing down on Mayhew, Arkansas, and D. Gene has no prayer of baiting a hook any time soon. Oh, and did we mention there’s an axe murderer on the loose? If you enjoy gloriously preposterous hilarity, then laughing your way through the take-no-prisoners lunacy of a Jones Hope Wooten comedy is one habit you’ll never want to break!

Author : Rob Chubb
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781460249949

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ColourSpectrums Personality Styles Book 3 by Rob Chubb Pdf

ColourSpectrums is an exciting leading edge personality styles model presented to groups worldwide in an entertaining, interactive workshop format. Now you too can learn how to use four colours to easily understand personality styles and human dynamics. This engaging process reveals your personality as a unique spectrum of: BLUE emotional intelligence, GREEN intellectual intelligence, RED physical intelligence and YELLOW organizational intelligence. Yup! You are more intelligent than you "think." Discover and celebrate your bright colour strengths. Acknowledge and strengthen your pale colour challenges. ColourSpectrums will help you use all four colours to make more intelligent decisions. Quickly identify anyone's ColourSpectrums personality to communicate and interact more effectively. Immediately enhance your personal effectiveness and improve all personal and professional relationships. ColourSpectrums synthesizes the complex body of work on personality styles into one seamless developmental model with profound implications and practical applications for interpersonal communication, group dynamics, family dynamics, parenting styles, teaching and learning styles, management styles, human resources, career counselling, customer service, decision making, stress management, conflict resolution, human development and much, much more. "So brilliantly simple, it's simply brilliant!" "Profoundly insightful a-ha learning. "Entertaining ha-ha learning." "Hands-on practical and user friendly." "A universal language celebrating diversity." In this ground-breaking series: ColourSpectrums Personality Styles Book 1: The Introduction ColourSpectrums Personality Styles Book 2: Stress Management and Conflict Resolution ColourSpectrums Personality Styles Book 3: Brightening Pale Colours www.colourspectrums.com

Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Convents
ISBN : OCLC:671400191

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Drinking Habits by Tom Smith Pdf

Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent's doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spurs paranoia throughout the convent that spies have been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves.

Author : Wim N. M. Hüsken,Konrad Schoell,Leif Søndergaard
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042014598

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Farce and Farcical Elements by Wim N. M. Hüsken,Konrad Schoell,Leif Søndergaard Pdf

Farcical elements were incorporated into non-comic drama ever since the theatre had been rediscovered in the Middle Ages. Already at a very early stage, comic scenes proved to be popular additions to liturgical music drama and, later, to religious plays in the vernacular. Some scholars believe that the genre of farce developed out of these farcical elements. The suggestion was made that farces, similar to the stuffing of meat or poultry, had been added to plays to increase audience involvement. Other researchers see quite different origins for the farce. The present volume does not aspire to solve the question of the relationship between the two types of "comedy" on the medieval stages but its editors hope that it will nevertheless contribute to this discussion. In addition, it will enable its readers to form an impression of the huge variety of the comic in the vast area of medieval and early Renaissance theatre and drama.

Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : IND:30000041584198

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Time by Briton Hadden Pdf

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351520249

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Farce by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the "putting out of candles, kicking down of tables, falling over joynt-stools," as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary, Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that "there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit, no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination"? Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions. Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church, the French term "farce" became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century, the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots, which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety, and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing, plot, characterization, timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion u

Author : Leo Hughes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876891

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Century of English Farce by Leo Hughes Pdf

This study of farce and low comedy in the English theatre covers the period in which farce as a distinct genre had its beginning. Originally published in 1956. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Charles Barnes Towns
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547380030

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Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy" by Charles Barnes Towns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812205015

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"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries by Jody Enders Pdf

Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sûr. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met the scatological in popular performances presented by roving troupes in public squares that skewered sex, politics, and religion. For centuries, the scripts for these outrageous, anonymously written shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and manuscript sources. Now prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest of these farces to contemporary English-speaking audiences in "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries. Enders's translation captures the full richness of the colorful characters, irreverent humor, and over-the-top plotlines, all in a refreshingly uncensored American vernacular. Those who have never heard the one about the Cobbler, the Monk, the Wife, and the Gatekeeper should prepare to be shocked and entertained. "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries is populated by hilarious characters high and low. For medievalists, theater practitioners, and classic comedy lovers alike, Enders provides a wealth of information about the plays and their history. Helpful details abound for each play about plot, character development, sets, staging, costumes, and props. This performance-friendly collection offers in-depth guidance to actors, directors, dramaturges, teachers, and their students. "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries puts fifteenth-century French farce in its rightful place alongside Chaucer, Shakespeare, commedia dell'arte, and Molière—not to mention Monty Python. Vive la Farce!

Author : Dorothy Parker & Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781491722657

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Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 by Dorothy Parker & Kevin C. Fitzpatrick Pdf

"This collection covers the six years Mrs. Parker wrote a monthly theatre column, first for Vanity Fair, from 1918 to 1920, and then on Ainslee's, from 1920 to 1923"--Page xv.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433070359207

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Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1781
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10540156

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The critical review, or annals of literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Harrison
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0878300872

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The Language of Theatre by Martin Harrison Pdf

Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use - ignorant of their origins - in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross-referenced in ways which will fascinate theatre-goers, help theatre students and encourage those engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles.

Author : Gabriel d'. EMILIANE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1725
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023931977

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Observations on a journy to Naples. Wherein the frauds of Romish monks and priests are farther discover'd. By the author of ... The frauds of Romish monks and priests. The dedication signed: G. d'E., i.e. G. d'Emiliane by Gabriel d'. EMILIANE Pdf

Author : Jesse Foot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000018634976

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The Life of Arthur Murphy, Esq by Jesse Foot Pdf