The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham
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The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham
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Author : Newell W. Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham written by Newell W. Sawyer and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
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,
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham
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Author : Newell Wheeler Sawyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham written by Newell Wheeler Sawyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with English drama (Comedy) categories.
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham
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Author : Newell W (Newell Wheeler) Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham written by Newell W (Newell Wheeler) Sawyer and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham
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Author : Newell Wheeler Sawyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Comedy Of Manners From Sheridan To Maugham written by Newell Wheeler Sawyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Comedies of manners, English categories.
Comedy Of Manners
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Author : David L. Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Comedy Of Manners written by David L. Hirst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Comedy Of Manners
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Author : Kenneth Muir
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-26
The Comedy Of Manners written by Kenneth Muir and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Idleness Indolence And Leisure In English Literature
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Author : M. Fludernik
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Idleness Indolence And Leisure In English Literature written by M. Fludernik and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.
Dramatic Bibliography
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
Release Date : 1933
Dramatic Bibliography written by and has been published by 清华大学出版社有限公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Bibliographical literature categories.
Leben Und Werk
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Author : Klaus W. Jonas
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2009
Leben Und Werk written by Klaus W. Jonas and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Authors, English categories.
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.
Eighteenth Century English Literature And Its Cultural Background
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Author : James Edward Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Release Date : 1967
Eighteenth Century English Literature And Its Cultural Background written by James Edward Tobin and has been published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Literary Criticism categories.