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Author : Newell Wheeler Sawyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Comedies of manners, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044951825
Author : Newell W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512806564
In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,
Author : Newell Wheeler Sawyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN : LCCN:69000227
Author : Newell W (Newell Wheeler) Sawyer
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014741025
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Author : David L. Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351629904
First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic form, emphasising the distinctive subjects and style that distinguish it from more general forms of witty social satire. The author discusses the major comic dramatists of the post-Restoration period; reassesses the significance of Sheridan, Wilde and Coward; and examines the continuation of the tradition in modern writers. This book will be of interest to students of English literature and drama.
Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579208
Originally published in 1970, this title starts with an introduction, in which Professor Muir distinguishes between the Comedy of Manners and other types of comedy and traces its origins in English and French literature, there are then chapters on the major writers – Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar – and on Jeremy Collier’s attack on the immorality and profaneness of the plays. This is followed by a discussion of the reasons for the decline of comedy in the eighteenth century and an account of its revival by Sheridan and, belatedly, by Wilde. Professor Muir takes issue with a number of recent critics on the dramatic value of the plays.
Author : Clarence Sibley Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Comedies of manners, English
ISBN : WISC:89090343328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Klaus W. Jonas
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 3447061421
Klaus W. Jonas' zweisprachige Ausgabe behandelt die literarische Laufbahn des Schriftstellers W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), eines der erfolgreichsten und meistgelesenen englischen Dramatiker, Essayisten und Romanciers der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Maugham selbst hat das humorvolle Vorwort in der Form eines Briefes beigesteuert. Eine chronologische Darstellung seines Lebens wird erganzt durch zwei wissenschaftliche Essays des Verfassers zu Maughams umfassendem literarischen Schaffen. Von besonderem Interesse sind die Auszuge aus dem Briefwechsel zwischen Klaus W. Jonas und W. Somerset Maugham, die einen genaueren Einblick in die Personlichkeit des Schriftstellers erlauben und von der engen Vertrautheit der beiden Briefpartner zeugen. Den zweiten Teil der Ausgabe bilden eine ausfuhrliche Bibliographie von Maughams literarischem Schaffen sowie eine Auswahlbibliographie von mehr als 420 kritischen Studien in deutscher, englischer, japanischer, spanischer und franzosischer Sprache. 71 Abbildungen, viele von ihnen bisher unveroffentlicht und aus Privatbesitz, erhohen den dokumentarischen Wert dieses Bandes. In this bilingual edition the author attempts to trace the literary career of William Somerset Maugham (1874-1865), one of the most widely read and performed dramatists, essayists and novelists in English literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Maugham himself has contributed a humorous preface in the form of a letter addressed to the author. The detailed chronology of Maugham's life is being supplemented by two of the author's numerous essays dealing with the stupendous literary oeuvre of this writer. Of special interest are the excerpts from Maugham's letters to his German-born collector and biographer which provide an inside view into his personality and his friendship with Klaus W. Jonas. The second half of this volume contains a bibliographical record of Maugham's life-work and a select bibliography of 420 critical studies in German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese. 71 illustrations, many of which hitherto unpublished and privately owned, enhance the documentary value of this volume.
Author : James E. Evans
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810819872
No descriptive material is available for this title.
Author : James Edward Tobin
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819601888
Author : A. Dooling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403978271
This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?
Author : A Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136892998
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Philip H. Dillard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810824450
Identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.