Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780882950921
The text of this edition is transcribed from that of George Nettleton, with additions or deletions set off in brackets. Also included are the dedicatory 'Portrait Addressed to Mrs Crewe', Garrick's 'Prologue', and G Colman's 'Epilogue'. Edited by John Loftis, this edition of The School for Scandal for performance and study also includes an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a selected bibliography.
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2017-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780332325798
Excerpt from The School for Scandal and the Rivals The fact is that Sheridan's latest biographer is an iconoclast, always a dangerous thing to be, and what he seeks to smash is a tradition, always a difficult thing to do. He has honestly persuaded himself that the Sheridan who lives in men's memories is a false Sheridan, and he has set himself to work to restore the true one. Animated by this belief, he has written a book which all will do well to read, a book which very likely will mark a point of departure for subse quent biographers and critics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Henry Nettleton
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1914
Category : English drama
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Author : George Henry Nettleton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
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Author : Robert Merritt Orton
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Editions
ISBN :
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0191605131
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comic irony, The Rivals satirizes the romantic posturing of Lydia Languish while her disguised suitor Captain Absolute's resourceful contrivances advance an ever inventive and skilfully wrought plot. Included in this edition are the opera play The Duenna and the rarely printed musical play A Trip to Scarborough, adapted from Vanbrugh's The Relapse. Sheridan's last play, The Critic, is an exuberant parody of the modish tragic drama of the day. Lampooning Sir Fretful Plagiary's absurdly bombastic historical drama during its confused stages of production, its satire never fails to delight. The texts of the plays have been newly edited by the General Editor of the Oxford World's Classics English Drama series. A fine introduction and notes on Sheridan's playhouses and critical inheritance make this an invaluable edition for study and performance alike. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Stendhal
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 12070 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat offers you this warm and meticulously edited collection for these stressful times: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Philip George Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838631065
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Book collecting
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