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Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy with this book.
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
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Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy with this book.
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into…
Shares Mistaken Identities, Rejection, Juvenile drama, Comedy
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Shares Vendetta, Performing Arts, Courtship, Youth with this book.
Shares Vendetta, Performing Arts, Courtship, Youth
Romeo and Juliet, 1750
Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Shares Vendetta, Juvenile drama, Youth, Classics
As You Like It
This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living.
Shares Juvenile drama, Comedy, English drama, Drama
Measure for Measure
This play examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense.
Shares Comedy, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
The Admirable Crichton
The story of the play concerns an aristocratic English family who revert to the state of Nature when shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, they are willing slaves to their former butler, but on return to civilization, the positions are shifted.
Shares Comedy, English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
The school for scandal, 1780
The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, the fickleness of reputation, [and] the often disreputable guises behind which goodness and honesty can conceal itself."
Shares Comedy, English drama, Drama
The Secret Agent
**The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale** is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly…
Shares Conspiracies, Classics, Drama, Classic Literature
Le rire; essai sur la signification du comique
En este ensayo Henri Bergson analiza las diversas cosas que provocan la risa con el fin de determinar los elementos humorísticos que nos hacen reí. Bergson describe la risa como un ser vivo que tiene un objetivo en gran parte social.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) fue el primer gran filósofo del siglo XX. Su originalísima obra, a menudo situada entre el análisis psicológico, la sociología, la…
Shares Comedy, Performing Arts, Classic Literature
The egoist
Presents the text of George Meredith's classic satirical novel along with critical essays by Robert Mayo, Virginia Woolf, and others, textual notes, and background essays by the author.
Shares Courtship, Drama, Classic Literature
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.…
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Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Drama with this book.
Candida
The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social…
Shares English drama, Drama
Plays (36)
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama with this book.
Shares Performing Arts, English drama, Classics, Drama
Henry IV, Part 1
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Shares Juvenile drama, English drama, Drama
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely…
Shares English drama, Drama, Classic Literature
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