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Fortune My Foe And Eros At Breakfast
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1993-09-01
Fortune My Foe And Eros At Breakfast written by Robertson Davies and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-01 with History categories.
Two plays from the 1940s by the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period.
The Deptford Trilogy
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books
Release Date : 1977-09-01
The Deptford Trilogy written by Robertson Davies and has been published by New York : Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-09-01 with categories.
A Masque Of Mr Punch
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1963
A Masque Of Mr Punch written by Robertson Davies and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Fiction categories.
The enthusiasm of Robertson Davies for the spirit of Mr Punch has taken witty form in this entertainment which Dr Davies wrote for the Preparatory School boys of Upper Canada College, Toronto. The incidents associated with the traditional Punch Show are all here, but they are witnessed and criticized by uncomprehending spokesmen for the modern theatre - newspaper critics, television producers, one playwright representing the school of "American Southern Decadence" and a member of the Board of Directors of the Stratford Festival. Mr Punch is not at all confounded by their cherished believes, even when each spokesman tries to bring him up to date in his own way. But Mr Punch will not be changed, and he emerges triumphant at the end, having been told of a whole new world to conquer.
A Celtic Temperament
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2015-10-06
A Celtic Temperament written by Robertson Davies and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which he began as a teenager, grew to over 3 million words and are an astonishing literary legacy. This first published selection of his diaries spans 1959 to 1963, years in which Davies, in mid-life, experienced both daunting failure and unexpected success. Born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913, he was educated at local schools, then Upper Canada College, Queen’s University and Oxford University. He worked in England at the famous Old Vic theatre as an actor and literary advisor before returning to Canada where he became the editor and publisher of the Peterborough Examiner, established himself as a prominent Canadian playwright, and published his first three novels now known as the Salterton Trilogy. By 1959, at the age of forty-five, Robertson Davies was already one of Canada’s leading literary figures. Even so the diaries show that he was frustrated by the limitations of his literary success, often exasperated with the distractions of his daily life and buffeted by his mental and emotional state. They also show that he enjoyed life, was deeply interested in the society he lived in, and in the people he encountered. More often than not he found comedy in the world around him and delighted in recording it. He kept not only a daily journal, but also more focused diaries such as his accounts of the Toronto and New York production of his play Love and Libel, when he worked closely with the great British director Tyrone Guthrie, and of the founding of Massey College, the brainchild of Vincent Massey. The descriptions of backstage and academic politics are invariably entertaining, but in his diaries Davies also reveals himself as intensely self-critical, frequently insecure, and with a highly changeable nature that he described as his “celtic temperament.” We also see him as a partner in an intensely happy and creative marriage, and as a man with an astonishing capacity for hard work. By the end of 1963 his life had taken a new direction. As master of Massey College, he finds himself a public figure, but he is increasingly preoccupied with a new novel he wants to write which he is calling Fifth Business. The publication of A Celtic Temperament establishes Robertson Davies as one of the great diarists. In their range, variety, intimacy, and honesty his diaries present an extraordinarily rich portrait of the man and his times.
At My Heart S Core Overlaid
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Pierre
Release Date : 1991
At My Heart S Core Overlaid written by Robertson Davies and has been published by Simon & Pierre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
Contains two plays by acclaimed Canadian author and playwright Robertson Davies, At My Heart’s Core (1950) and Overlaid (1948).
Robertson Davies
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Author : Nicholas Maes
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2009-03-23
Robertson Davies written by Nicholas Maes and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century. Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was the very epitome of the “man of letters,” a term he abhorred. Best known for his Deptford Trilogy of novels (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders), he also wrote two other trilogies (Salterton and Cornish) and was at work on the third volume of another trilogy (Toronto) when he died. With a life as rich in character and colour as that found in his fiction and essays, Davies had a great fondness for magic and myth, both of which are found in abundance in his work, along with a prodigious streak of wry humour.
Robertson Davies Canadian Playwright
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Author : Deborah J. Pierce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Robertson Davies Canadian Playwright written by Deborah J. Pierce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with categories.
Hunting Stuart And The Voice Of The People
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Author : Robertson Davies
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1994-09-01
Hunting Stuart And The Voice Of The People written by Robertson Davies and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
An Ottawa civil servants royal connection and a letter to the editor are the themes from two of Davies best plays.
Robertson Davies Playwright
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Author : Susan Stone-Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Robertson Davies Playwright written by Susan Stone-Blackburn and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this book, Susan Stone-Blackburn studies how the tastes and concerns of one of Canada's leading writers have been given dramatic expression, beginning with The King Who Could Not Dream and Benoni and ending with Question Time and Pontiac and the Green Man. She also examines how Davies' playwriting has been influenced by the dominant tastes of his time and by the conditions under which his plays have been performed. Dealing with the plays chronologically, Stone-Blackburn reveals Davies' fondness for theatricality as opposed to realism, for mythic flavour and archetypal character, his romanticism, and his irrepressible humour.
Robertson Davies
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Author : Michael Peterman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1986
Robertson Davies written by Michael Peterman and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.