Author: Geoffrey Bullough
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: comedies, volume, shakespeare, sources, dramatic, narrative
Number of Pages: 543
Published: 1958-10-15
List price: $147.50
ISBN-10: 0231088922
ISBN-13: 9780231088923

Shakespeare’s writing is filled with ideas, images, plots and characters borrowed or interpreted from other dramatists and poets. This work gathers together the sources and traces the relationship of these texts to Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works.Whole texts are included wherever possible, and significant extracts provided from longer works such as Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Since many of the reprinted texts are based on the Elizabethan editions highly regarded at that time, this collection also serves as a valuable anthology of prose and verse.A critical introduction to t

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: comedies, terence
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2007-02-08
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0198149719
ISBN-13: 9780198149712

Terence (?184-159 BC) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. His plays have been imitated by authors as diverse as the nun Hrothswitha in the tenth century and P. G. Wodehouse in the twentieth. They deal with the love-life of adolescent boys and with associated tensions in their relations with their fathers. They show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and they also portray the problems that arise from ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. They are true to universal elements of human experienc

Author: William, Congreve
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: comedies
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1406790451
ISBN-13: 9781406790450

Congreve’s style is inimitable, nay perfect. It is the highest model of comic dialogue. Every sentence is replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. The fire of artful raillery is nowhere else so well kept up.

Author: Ludvig Holberg
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: comedies
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-01-10
List price: $9.90
ISBN-10: 1406835773
ISBN-13: 9781406835779

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: Aristophane
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, comedies, eleven
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0554321785
ISBN-13: 9780554321783

The eleven plays all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career deal with the events of the day the incidents and personages of contemporary Athenian city life playing freely over the surface of things familiar to the audience and naturally provoking their interest and rousing their prejudices dealing with contemporary local gossip contemporary art and literature and above all contemporary politics domestic and foreign.

Author: Jean Baptiste, Moliere
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: vol, comedies
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 1406790133
ISBN-13: 9781406790139

Includes Don John - Love’s The Best Doctor - Tartuffe, Or The Imposter - Squire Lubberly - George Dandin - The Cit Turned Gentleman - The Impertinents - The learned Ladies - The Cheats of Scapin - The Hypochondriac

Author: Terence
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, comedies
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1976-11-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014044324X
ISBN-13: 9780140443240

The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, "The Girl from Andros" Terence portrays a love affair saved by a startling discovery. "The Self-Tormentor" focuses on a man’s remorse after sending his son to war, and "The Eunuch" depicts a case of mistaken identity. "Phormio" is as rich in intrigue as a French farce, while "The Mother-in-Law" shows two families striving to save a marriage and "The Brothers"