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In this biography I have striven specially for three things:-- first, to set forth the facts of Moliere's life, stripped of all the legends which compass it about, second, to trace his development as a dramatist, making it plain how cautiously he advanced in his art and how slowly he reached the full expansion of his power, and thirdly, to show his intimate relation to the time in which he lived, the glittering beginning of the reign of Louis ...

Bringing to life the world portrayed in the stories in Judges and Ruth, this commentary offers readers an "insider" perspective on the narratives. After establishing a cultural and literary context, Victor Matthews analyzes each episode separately and as a whole.

CONTENTS The Principles of Playmaking How to Write a Play On Putting Literature into the Drama Three Theorists of the Theater If Shakespeare Should Come Back Shakespearian Stage-Traditions The Pleasant Land of Scribia "Hamlet" with Hamlet Left Out Situations Wanted The Playwright and the Player Irish Plays and Irish Playwrights The Conventions of the Music-Drama The Simplification of Stage-Scenery The Vocabulary of the Show-Business Matthew Ar...

CONTENTSPlaywrights on PlaymakingUndramatic CriticismOld Plays and New Playgoers Tragedies with Happy Endings On the Advantage of Having a Pattern Did Shakespeare Write Plays to Fit His Actors?Strange Shakespearian PerformancesThackeray and the TheaterMark Twain and the TheaterHenry James and the TheaterStage HumorThe "Old Comedies"The Organization of the TheaterMemories of ActorsAt the time of original publication in 1923, Brander Matthews wa...

This is a simple textbook for the beginner, to serve as an introduction to the study of English versification. There are many volumes devoted to the analysis of poetry, but there are few which confine themselves wholly to the problems of prosody, and scarcely any one of these is exactly adapted to the needs of the novice who knows little or nothing about the principles of the metrical art. The aim of this book is to explain to the inquirer the...

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Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its ...

This book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime prevention, disorder and community safety in contemporary society. Bringing together nine original articles from leading national and international authorities on these issues, the book examines recent developments in relation to a number of specific groups - the disadvantaged, the socially excluded, youth, women and ethnic minorities. Topics covered include...

This study presents a full account of Sheppard's employment under Cromwell's Protectorate.

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An excellent book, which carries one away with its vigor and invention, both in such poems as 'Straight Life' and in it breezy, pungent versions of Martial.' -Richard Wilbur

Hands-on networking experience, without the lab! The best way to learn about network protocols is to see them in action. But that doesn't mean that you need a lab full of networking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanying CD give readers realistic hands-on experience working with network protocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, and PCs of an actual network. Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action ...

Of interest to Matthews fans and those interested in the classics.

In his first collection of poems, The Mill Is Burning, 2001 Pen/Joyce Osterweil Award winner Richard Matthews brings to bear an astonishing range of poetic modes and voices to explore landscape internal and external, light and dark, real and fanciful, near and remote. These are poems distinctive in both their lyrical and emotional urgency and their intelligence and craft. Matthews does not flinch from difficult subjects. In "Cavafy Suite, " he...

Cassidy McCabe is having a bad day when her cat turns up missing and her client Dana undergoes a frightening flashback in which she witnessed a Satanic ritual. Knowing Dana has a psychiatric history, Cassidy is uncertain whether to take the suddenly recovered memory as reality or delusion. But when she tells the story to her partner in crime solving, investigative reporter Zach Moran, he recognizes the place Dana describes and insists on searc...

The Directory contains an Alphabetical List of the Corporation, Clergy, Merchants, Bankers, Proffessors of the Law and Physic, Manufacturers, Principal traders, etc. of the City of Bristol, with its environs. Plus Lists of Mail coaches, Waggons, Coasting and other trading vessels, to and from Bristol. And Particulars of the Coming in and Going out of the Posts, Home and Foreign, with the Custom-House, Excise House, etc.. Also a List of th Hack...

In this prequel to "Mila and Mervusya: A Russian Wedding, Mervyn Matthews describes his remarkable childhood in Wales in the late 1930s, ' 40s and early' 50s. To escape the bombing during the Swansea blitz during World War II, Matthews went to live with his grandmother in the working-class Hafod district. He was evacuated to west Wales to escape further bombing and spent a long period hospitalized. In addition to suffering the discomforts of w...

The result of more than 20 years of research by one of the world's leading scholars of Arthurian mythology. The author presents a unique view of the mythology of Gawain, the Green Knight of Camelot, and of Britain and its connections with the historical changes that took place over many hundreds of years in the religious and mystical traditions of the country.

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