Miss Billings Treads The Boards
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Miss Billings Treads The Boards
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Author : Carla Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Camel Press
Release Date : 2013-12
Miss Billings Treads The Boards written by Carla Kelly and has been published by Camel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with Fiction categories.
Cynical, lazy Lord Grayson is coerced into delivering a message to lovely Katherine Billings, whose late father frittered away a fortune on artwork. All his purchases were forgeries, save one, which-if sold-would offer Kate a modest living. Meanwhile, Kate has bowed to necessity and set off for Wakefield to become a governess. Gently reared, she has no plans to become a scandalous actress, but Things Happen. Injured by a highwayman hired by his greedy nephew, Lord Grayson staggers to a barn where a play is in progress. There he sees Kate, playing a small role. Through a mishap, she has ended up in Wickfield, not Wakefield, and is performing with the Bladesworth Traveling Company, an acting troupe. What's a lazy and cynical marquis to do? Lord Grayson-using his everyday name of Hal Hampton-joins the troupe, partly to protect himself from his nephew, but mostly to get to know Kate better. They both fall under the spell of the impecunious but talented Bladesworths. A charming French émigré, a single-minded Bow Street Runner, and love round out a summer where the repertory includes deception, faux marriage, the law, and enough unsavory characters to suit any would-be Shakespeare. After all, the play's the thing.
Shakespeare And Appropriation
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Author : Christy Desmet
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Shakespeare And Appropriation written by Christy Desmet and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays: * analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation * investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function * put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority * analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.
Romance Fiction
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Author : Kristin Ramsdell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-03-02
Romance Fiction written by Kristin Ramsdell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespearean Comedy
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Author : Heather Hirschfeld
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06
The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespearean Comedy written by Heather Hirschfeld and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.
The Routledge Companion To Theatre Fiction
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Author : Graham Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-11-14
The Routledge Companion To Theatre Fiction written by Graham Wolfe and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Novelists have long been attracted to theatre. Some have pursued success on the stage, but many have sought to combine these worlds, entering theatre through their fiction, setting stages on their novels’ pages, and casting actors, directors, and playwrights as their protagonists. The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction has convened an international community of scholars to explore the remarkable array of novelists from many eras and parts of the world who have created fiction from the stuff of theatre, asking what happens to theatre on the pages of novels, and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre. From J. W. Goethe to Louisa May Alcott, Mikhail Bulgakov, Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Atwood, some of history’s most influential novelists have written theatre-fiction, and this Companion discusses many of these figures from new angles. But it also spotlights writers who have received less critical attention, such as Dorothy Leighton, Agustín de Rojas Villandrando, Ronald Firbank, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Li Yu, and Vicente Blasco Ibañez, bringing their work into conversation with a vital field. A valuable resource for students, scholars, and admirers of both theatre and novels, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction offers a wealth of new perspectives on topics of increasing critical concern, including intermediality, theatricality, antitheatricality, mimesis, diegesis, and performativity.
What Do I Read Next 00 V2
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Author : Gale Group
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Release Date : 2000-11
What Do I Read Next 00 V2 written by Gale Group and has been published by Gale Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Genreflecting
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Author : Diana Tixier Herald
language : en
Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1995
Genreflecting written by Diana Tixier Herald and has been published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A guide for understanding popular reading tastes, organized to define each genre and its subgenres.
What Do I Read Next
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
What Do I Read Next written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
What Do I Read Next 2002
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Author : Neil Barron
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Release Date : 2002-10-22
What Do I Read Next 2002 written by Neil Barron and has been published by Gale Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.
Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind
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Author : Carla Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Camel Press
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind written by Carla Kelly and has been published by Camel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Miss Jane Milton lives to serve her Stover cousins. Suffering the insults of Lady Carruthers, she cares for the orphaned son of her cousin Lord Canfield, killed at Waterloo. Miss Milton gradually grows to love Mr. Butterfield, her handsome neighbor, a tradesman who encourages her to speak her mind. But despite his wealth, the man is Jane's social inferior, and they both harbor dark secrets.