First Gravedigger

Author : Barbara Paul
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504032391

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First Gravedigger by Barbara Paul Pdf

An unscrupulous antiques dealer asks a murderous favor of an old friend In the city of Pittsburgh, Amos Speer is the king of antiques, and as heir apparent to his international empire, Earl Sommers is his prince. But Sommers is keen-eyed, ruthless, and not above cheating to stay on top. He steals from the company whenever he gets the chance, and has a standing invitation to Mrs. Speer’s bed. But when old man Speer turns on his former protégé, doing everything he can to drive him out of the business, Sommers’s thoughts turn to something truly priceless: revenge. An old friend appears at Sommers’s doorstep, stinking of whiskey and intending to kill himself. Before he does, Sommers persuades him to undertake one last job: getting rid of Amos Speer. It should be the perfect crime—but Sommers is about to learn there’s no such thing as a simple murder.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Industrial Systems Research
Page : 2699 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780906321904

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The Plays of William Shakespeare: A Modernized Compilation by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare – born in April 1564 in Stratford on Avon – was the greatest dramatist of the age. By his retirement around 1613, he had created a body of literature unparalleled in its brilliance and impact on the English language. His plays featured rich prose and poetry, complex characters, and explorations of universal themes. They introduced many new words and phrases into the language and set high standards for writers of dramatic verse everywhere. Shakespeare wrote in various genres and styles. Many of the plays combined comedy, real history, romance, and misfortune. This expanded the dramatic possibilities. On top of this, the playwright constantly experimented and innovated to create an artistic product that satisfied mixed audiences. These positive features or selling points of Shakespeare’s plays helped boost the theatre in general as a medium of mass entertainment. Plays became popular across-the-board – attracting all kinds of people and firmly establishing the theatre as a central cultural institution. Large audiences continue to patronize the great Shakespeare plays in live and filmed versions today – notably · "A Midsummer Night's Dream" – the whimsical comedy with several intertwining plots surrounding a celebrity marriage; · “Hamlet” – the story of a Prince of Denmark grappling with the death of his father and seeking revenge against a murdering uncle; · "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Henry IV, Part 2" – following the political struggles of King Henry IV and the coming-of-age of his son, Prince Hal, who later became Henry V; · “King Lear” – the aging king whose decision to divide his kingdom among his three daughters has tragic effects; · "Much Ado About Nothing", with its themes of love and deception, witty banter, and humorous misunderstandings throughout; · “Othello”, exploring themes of jealousy, betrayal, and racism in the tragic story of a Moorish general; · "Richard III", depicting the rise and fall of a scheming, manipulative, and murderous English monarch; · "The Tempest" exploring themes of magic, betrayal, and forgiveness on a remote island; · "The Winter's Tale" combining misfortune and comedy with a story line spanning a long period and strong themes of jealousy and redemption; and · "Twelfth Night" – the compelling tale of mistaken identity and love featuring a young woman disguise d as a man. However, four centuries-plus have inevitably lessened the readability and understandability of the original literary productions. This is a modernized compilation of the dramas – seeking to cut out archaic words, outdated grammar and spelling, and complex old-fashioned syntax while preserving their essence. Concise study guides go with each of the plays. These provide details of their dates (where available) and the complex characters and important events occurring in them. They also summarize the overall themes and plots and assess their general significance as pieces of dramatic art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Comedians
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNVZC

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Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Appearance on the Stage of William Warren, Boston's Favorite Comedian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Esther K. Sheldon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876228

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Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley by Esther K. Sheldon Pdf

This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information about Sheridan’s relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater historians. Originally published in 1967. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590312792

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Dramatic notes, by C. E. Pascoe. [1st] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027734065

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Drama & Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Theater
ISBN : UIUC:30112068217204

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Dramatic Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11520378

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Punch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611474756

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Who Hears in Shakespeare? by Laury Magnus,Walter W. Cannon Pdf

This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama by such scholars as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh. To look at the dynamics of hearing in Shakespeare’s plays involves a paradigm shift that changes how we understand virtually everything about them, from the architecture of the buildings, to playing spaces, to blocking, and to larger interpretative issues, including our understanding of character based on players’ responses to what they hear, mishear, or refuse to hear. Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stageand Screen is comprised of three sections on Shakespeare’s texts and performance history: “The Poetics of Hearing and the Early Modern Stage”; “Metahearing: Hearing, Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off”; and “Transhearing: Hearing, Whispering, Overhearing, and Eavesdropping in Film and Other Media.” Chapters by noted scholars explore the complex reactions and interactions of onstage and offstage audiences and show how Shakespearean stagecraft, actualized on stage and adapted on screen, revolves around various situations and conventions of hearing—soliloquies,, asides, avesdropping, overhearing, and stage whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates Shakespeare’s nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. The volume ends with Stephen Booth’s afterword, his inspiring meditation on hearing that considers Shakespearean “audiences” and their responses to what they hear—or don’t hear—in Shakespeare’s plays.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000153570068

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317192930

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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare by Patrick Tucker Pdf

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn’t a book that gently instructs. It is a passionate, yes-you-can guide designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Patrick Tucker’s classic manual encourages trained and amateur actors alike to look to the original practices of the Elizabethan theatre for inspiration. He explores the ‘cue scripts’ used by actors, who knew only their own lines, to demonstrate the extraordinary way that these plays work by ear. This updated second edition includes: A section dedicated to the modes of address 'thee‘ and 'you‘ A brand new chapter on Original Practices and cue scripts An expanded genealogical chart, showing the interrelations of 92 different characters from the history plays A new discussion of Elizabethan acting spaces – balconies, gates, ramparts and even backstage areas Secrets of Acting Shakespeare is a must-read for actors intrigued by the ‘Original Approach’ to acting Shakespeare, or for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.

Author : Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830958

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Textual Performances by Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:L0082553876

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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle by James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry Pdf

Author : John C. Greene
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611461107

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820 by John C. Greene Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433088149608

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Sketch by Anonim Pdf