category: english drama comedy

Women and Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition

Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition Susan Carlson. 9 ... play in large part comic - Chur- chill offers another instructive transformation of comedy to stand beside Cloud ... script of Top Girls for Methuen before the play was staged and ...

Four Comedies

... soldier's greatest source of pride : not his valour , not even his beauty , but his wealth ( 1063 ff . ) . The slave feeds the soldier ... The Braggart 1321- 5. ) This may not prove any direct Euripidean influence , for Plautus himself has a ...

Shakespearean Comedies

The Historical Retrospection Of The Past Is Made Clearer At This Apparently Incongruent Point, Than In All Other Romantic Comedies. The Book Would Definitely Prove Valuable To Students And Teachers Concerned With Shakespearean Works.

The Pedantic Apothecary Quizzed, Or Lottery Prize, of 2, 5, 3, 8, a Farce. In Two Acts. Performed at the Theatres Royal, London and Dublin

RB . 23 a . 32166 THE Pedantic Apothecary QUIZZED , OR LOTTERY PRIZE , OF 2 , 5 , 3 , 8 , A FAR CE . In Two A C T S. Performed at the Theatres Royal , LONDON AND DUBLIN . DUBLIN : Printed by JOHN WHITWORTH , No. 14 , Exchange street . 1 ...

Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition : Essays in Honor of Eugene M. Waith

This volume of essays traces the evolution of comedy from its flowering during the Renaissance to the era when the prose novel became the dominant fictional form.

The Busy Body: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden

... of my husband . Mrs. Peach . What , is the wench turn'd fool ? A highwayman's wife , like a foldier's , hath as little of his pay as of his company . Peach . And had not you the common views of a gentlewoman in your marriage , Polly ? Polly ...

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