The Dry Mock
Author : Alan Reynolds Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
An Ideal Husband
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1912
Category : English drama
ISBN :
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The Cask of Amontillado
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781583415801
Book Description
After enduring many injuries of the noble Fortunato, Montressor executes the perfect revenge.
The Gift of the Magi
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Amila Jay
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 3986779213
Book Description
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.
Irony and the Modern Theatre
Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139499424
Book Description
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Irony in the Drama
Author : Robert Boies Sharpe
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN :
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Oedipus the King
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2015-08-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781297635458
Book Description
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A Rhetoric of Irony
Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226065537
Book Description
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"? In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period. Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores—with the help of Plato—the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.
Plays
Author : Susan Glaspell
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1920
Category : American drama
ISBN :
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Author is believed lesbian & 1st woman playwright in this century to achieve any notice.
Writing & Selling Drama Screenplays
Author : Lucy V. Hay
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1843444135
Book Description
It may be drama features that win the most awards and kudos from critics, but in the current marketplace you're unlikely to sell a drama screenplay in the way you would a genre script. Breaking down the nuts and bolts of what differentiates drama from genre, Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays considers questions such as: - What is 'emotional truth'? - What separates stereotypical and authentic characters? - What are the different types of drama feature screenplay? - How do we make these films, when there's 'no money'? - What are the distribution opportunities for dramas? - Exploring the ways in which drama and authenticity work, it will empower screenwriters to make their own story and character choices, so they can write and also help to package, finance and even make their own drama features. Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays includes detailed case studies of produced dramas made on both shoestring and bigger budgets, and industry insights from their writers, directors and producers. It looks in-depth at Scottish BAFTA-winning Night People, the iconic coming out movie Beautiful Thing, the touching New Orleans drama Hours, starring the late Paul Walker, and the ambitious true story of Saving Mr Banks, based on the battle of wills between Mary Poppins author PL Travers and Walt Disney himself. It also discusses films such as Brokeback Mountain, American Beauty, The King's Speech, Juno, Erin Brockovich, Changeling and Girl, Interrupted. 'A top-notch, cutting-edge guide to writing and selling, not just practical but inspirational. Lucy's distinctive voice infuses the entire journey. Quite brilliant. Here's the woman who'll help you make things happen' - Barbara Machin, award-winning writer & creator of Waking the Dead 'Delivers the stirring call to arms that writers must not only write, but take their work to the next level themselves, making sacrifices and taking risks if they want to see their stories on screen' - Chris Jones, Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Creative Director at the London Screenwriters Festival Check out Lucy V. Hay's other screenwriting books: Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays and Writing Diverse Characters for Fiction, Film and TV
