Author : Heather Arden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1980-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521225132
Dr Arden analyses the sottie, a short comical play, which flourished in France from about 1440 to 1560.
Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573608773
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1825
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 153263854X
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.
Author : Joseph Allen
Publisher : Rogue Phoenix Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1624205178
No sooner has handsome, partially disabled Ned Savage moved into the apartment next door to Hugo Miller than he is apparently murdered with a heavy candlestick to his head while he is collapsing into anaphylactic shock in his living room, due to a fungus that is commonly found on marijuana plants. The action happens in and around several productions of “Twelfth Night” in NYC and at a nearby Shakespeare festival. Hugo, Gabriele and Ruth travel to California to see a high-tech cannabis operation, to London to visit Ned’s pregnant wife (a secret marriage), and to Istanbul to meet a famous author who has invested in Ned’s career. Ned’s sexuality and his pregnant wife’s preferences aren’t clear, and Gabriele Cortese is part of a love triangle involving both of them. But the keys to the solution are found on a stormy night filled with lightning and fools in New York City.
Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573608773
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
Author : Celia Rees
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0747597340
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 Shakespeare in Love meets Twelfth Night - A gripping and evocative historical novel by bestselling Celia Rees
Author : Ralph Lerner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1459627229
The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and ...
Author : M.W. Carey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468548204
Dan Burdette decides he will not play the fool for Stracht. After double-crossing Stracht in Panama, Dan flees to Geneva only to be imprisoned. Barbara Burdette gathers their friend, assisant US Attorney Mike Buckland and the game of cat and mouse begins. Yet, as Stracht plays his game, his boss plays Stracht -- and while Dan and Mike use the system to get Dan's freedom, Barbara decides the deal is not good enough and she plays her own game with the dangerous Stracht, using the tools that God had granted her. In the end, some have played the fools, some have been the fools, and not everyone comes out alive.
Author : Frederick B. Warde
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
ISBN :
I have found occasion in several instances, to differ with some of the well known Shakespearean scholars; but it must always be remembered that I speak from the viewpoint of the actor, for whom, and for whom alone the plays were written. I have not entered the literary dissecting room, nor invaded the realm of psychology. The line of demarcation between humor and imbecility, folly and insanity, I leave to the professional alienist. I have taken the characters as they appear in the plays and as I conceive the author intended them, with due reference to their relation to the other characters. - Preface.
