A Comedy of Elopement


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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.




A Comedy of Elopement


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This romantic comedy, written by Frances Tiernan under the male pen name Christian Reid, regales the readers with a tale set in St. Augustine, Florida. Here, the novel's heroine, Aimée, finds herself struggling between the affections of two different suitors - an impoverished man she's greatly enamored with and a wealthy man whom she likes when the former is not around.







Be an Optimist


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English Stage Comedy 1490-1990


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First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.




Youth Rebels


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Thinking in Pictures


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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.




The Contemporary Theatre, 1923-1944-45


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"... Collection of weekly articles which have appeared in ... the Saturday review and the Sunday times."-- Pref.




The Edison Kinetogram


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