Eight Great Comedies

Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452011701
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
“A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience.”—Los Angeles Times Here in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli’s Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw’s Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière’s satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors’ Eight Great Tragedies.

Eight Great Comedies

Author: Berman Barnet
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451623645
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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EIGHT GREAT COMEDIES

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Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Eight Great Tragedies

Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452011728
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Presenting the complete texts of eight of the world’s greatest plays, this important volume illuminates the changing concept of tragedy from Sophocles to O’Neill. Some of the world’s greatest dramas unfold on these pages. In the powerful and famous plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripedes, Oedipus makes his disastrous marriage, Prometheus struggles against Zeus to break his painful chains, and the Love Goddess, Aphrodite, takes her revenge on the Theban prince who slighted her. Shakespeare’s King Lear suffers at the hands of his two evil daughters. The great Scandinavian dramatists Ibsen and Strindberg fearlessly present stories of infidelity and social disease, while Desire under the Elms, Eugene O’Neill’s savage picture of primitive desires in modern New England, rounds out this excellent anthology. Including important essays by noteworthy critics and philosophers, this book is an ideal companion to the editors’ Eight Great Comedies. Featured Plays: Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus) Oedipus the King (Sophocles) Hippolytus (Euripedes) King Lear (William Shakespeare) Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen) Miss Julie (August Strindberg) On Baile’s Strand (William Butler Yeats) Desire under the Elms (Eugene O’Neill) Also includes essays by Aristotle, Hume, Emerson, Tillyard, Richards, and Krutch.

The Eight Characters of Comedy

Author: Scott Sedita
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977064120
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Who's funny? -- Sitcom history -- Half hour technique: rhythm, words, punctuation, timing, and pace, the turnaround, triplets -- Acting technique -- The four C's of comedy -- The characters: the logical smart one, the lovable loser, the neurotic, the dumb one, the bitch/bastard, the womanizer/manizer, the materialistic one, in their own universe -- Finding your comedic note -- Appendix 1: Ten rules of comedy -- Appendix 2: Who said that? -- Appendix 3: Glossary (finding the funny).

Five Great Comedies

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113191
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
This inexpensive Dover edition brings together five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, from the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Feydeau, First to Last

Author: Georges Feydeau
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557834638
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
(Applause Books). Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote, over a third were one-acts. In this volume, Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays, among them Feydeau's first and last works. Includes: Ladies' Man * Wooed and Viewed * Romance in A Flat * Fit to Be Tried, or, Stepbrothers in Crime * Mixed Doubles * The Boor Hug * Caught with His Trance Down * Tooth and Consequences, or, Hortense Said: "No Skin Off My Ass!"

The Top 100 American Situation Comedies

Author: Mitchell E. Shapiro
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476623406
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situation comedies of all time. These have all had something in common--subjective criteria based on the authors' opinions. This book attempts an objective ranking of the best 100 American sitcoms, based on a mathematical formula taking into account four factors: ratings, longevity, peer acceptance and spawning of other programs (spin-offs). The authors considered a field of 377 series which met at least one of four criteria: aired for at least three seasons; rated among top 30 series in at least one season; received at least one major Emmy nomination; or spawned at least one other series. A critical essay is provided for each series, along with air dates and cast listings.

The Great Comedies and Tragedies

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840221459
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 900

Book Description
The collection of the finest of Shakespeare's plays presents Shakespeare's comedies with introductions by Judith Buchanan and tragedies with introductions by Emma Smith

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.