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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vernon guy dickson”
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  • Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage

    by Vernon Guy Dickson ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in the ... Read more

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  • Much Ado About Nothing (Rediscovered Books)

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    by William Shakespeare ...
    Honor and Shame -- One of Shakespeare's very best plays. This hilarious romp is both engaging and entertaining. Hero is engaged to marry Claudio, but Don John plots to make Hero look unfaithful. Claudio denounces Hero on the altar and storms out. Hero's father wishes for her death, but instead the presiding Friar intervenes, fakes Hero's death and with the help of the terribly inept local watch ... Read more

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  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...
    The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic literary movement. Finished in six weeks of intensive writing during January–March 1774, its ... Read more

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  • The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

    by Plautus ...
    One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Euripides V

    Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hippolytus

    by Euripides ...
    Together with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides provided the canon of Greek tragedy and thereby laid the foundation of Western theatre. Though little is known for certain of his early life, Euripides was probably born around 460 b.c.e. to the farmer Mnesarchus and his wife Clito, and his studious nature quickly led him to a literary life in Athens. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and ... Read more

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  • Bacchides or The Two Bacchises, a play in English and Latin

    by Titus Maccius Plautus ...
    Classic Roman comedy. According to Wikipedia, "Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. Plautus wrote around 52 plays, which were released between c. 205 and 184 BCE, of which 20 have survived, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in ... Read more

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  • Hecuba

    by Euripides ...
    Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical ... Read more

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  • The SleepingCar A Farce

    by William Dean Howells ...
    The Sleeping Car: A Farce by William Dean Howells is a comedic play that explores the humorous and absurd aspects of social interaction and class distinction during a train journey. The plot revolves around a group of passengers traveling in a sleeping car who find themselves caught in a series of misunderstandings and farcical situations. These interactions are largely driven by the characters’ ... Read more

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  • Prometheus Bound

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Metropolitan Tragedy

    Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England

    by Marissa Greenberg ...
    Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Murder of the Boy King

    by Brian Twiddy ...
    A short, funny play for 7-11 year olds including craft activities with full instructions. Tutankhamun is the Pharaoh. Shortly he will be 18 years old and ready to assume command of his country. His ministers have been in charge for ten years or more and are reluctant to give up their power. This playbook is part of our "Creating History" series, and is designed for a group of young people to enjoy ... Read more

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