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Excerpt from Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage: Edited With an IntroductionExplanations do not alter the character of a book, but they may be useful in defining its limits. The present anthology is not an attempt to represent the modern European drama. Instead, it presents that drama as an element or factor in American professional stage production that my Crown anthologies of contemporary American plays have hitherto neglected....

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Eugene O'Neill - American Writers 45 " was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

This volume includes: "The Country Wife, " by William Wycherley, "The Way of the World, " by William Congreve, "The Beggar's Opera, " by John Gay, "The Rirals, " by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, plus songs, verses, prologues, and epilogues. Introduction by William Makepeace Thackery (on Restoration Comedy).

This volume includes: "The Country Wife, " by William Wycherley, "The Way of the World, " by William Congreve, "The Beggar's Opera, " by John Gay, "The Rirals, " by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, plus songs, verses, prologues, and epilogues. Introduction by William Makepeace Thackery (on Restoration Comedy).

An anthology of essays from the classical theatre (Aristotle "The Origin of Poetry and Tragedy", Horace from "The Art of Poetry" and so on) and from Renaissance theatre (Sebastiano Serlio "The Stage, C. Walter Hodges "The Stately-Furnished Scene", etc).

Boisterous and unrestrained like the age itself, the Elizabethan theatre has long defended its place at the apex of English dramatic history. Shakespeare was but the brightest star in this extraordinary galaxy of playwrights. The stage boasted a rich and varied repertoire from courtly and romantic comedy to domestic and high tragedy, melodrama, farce, and histories. The Gassner-Green anthology revives the whole range of this universal stage, o...