The nature of Roman comedy : a study in popular entertainment / by Duckworth, George E., 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Early Italian popular comedy -- Greek comedy -- The golden age of drama at Rome -- Presentation and staging -- Stage conventions and techniques -- Theme and treatment -- Methods of composition -- Foreshadowing and suspense -- Characters and characterization -- Thought and moral tone -- The comic spirit in character and situation -- Language and style -- Meter and song -- The originality of Roman comedy : a recapitulation -- The influence of Plautus and Terence upon English comedy -- Appendix. …”
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The merchant of Venice

Table of Contents: “…Marshall, 'the first of his [Shakespeare's] great comedies', 1888. -- Sir George Heynes Radford, Shylock's character determined by the plot, 1894. -- Frederick Samuel Boas, Shakespeare's concession to bigotry, 1896. -- Georg Brandes, Shylock 'a monster of passionate hatred, not avarice', 1898. -- A.W. …”
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Barbarian play : Plautus' Roman comedy / by Anderson, William S. (William Scovil), 1927-

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Aristophanes and Alcibiades : echoes of contemporary history in Athenian comedy / by Vickers, Michael J.

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Reproducing Athens : Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city / by Lape, Susan, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Narratives of resistance and romance : democracy and comedy in the early Hellenistic Period -- Reproducing democracy in oligarchic and autocratic Athens -- Making citizens in comedy and court -- The ethics of democracy in Menander's Dyskolos -- The politics of sexuality in drama in Democratic Athens : the case of Menander's Samia -- The Mercenary romance : gender and civic education in the Perikeiromenē and Misoumenos -- Trials of masculinity in democratic discourse and Menander's Sikyōnioi.…”
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Virgil, the blind guide : marking the way through the Divine Comedy / by Howard, Lloyd

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Virgil, the blind guide : marking the way through the Divine Comedy / by Howard, Lloyd

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Producing early modern London : a comedy of urban space, 1598-1616 / by Stage, Kelly J., 1978-

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Biblical references in Shakespeare's plays by Shaheen, Naseeb, 1931-2009

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The walking muse : Horace on the theory of satire by Freudenburg, Kirk, 1961-

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Citizen Shakespeare : freemen, city wives, and aliens in the language of the plays by Archer, John Michael

Table of Contents: “…Comedy: Civil Sayings -- History: Civil Butchery -- Tragedy: What Rome?…”
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Dante and the Franciscans

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Members of his body : Shakespeare, Paul, and a theology of nonmonogamy by Stockton, Will

Table of Contents: “…Marriage and the body of Christ -- Neither male nor female -- Paul in Ephesus: self and sexual difference in the Comedy of Errors -- Portia's Pauline perversion: the Merchant of Venice and Romans 1 -- The works of the flesh -- Chaste impossibilities: adultery and individuation in Othello -- The ecology of adultery: flesh, blood, and stone in the Winter's Tale -- Why (again) are the utopians monogamous?…”
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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith -- Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello -- Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays -- Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado -- "Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays -- Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.…”
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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith -- Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello -- Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays -- Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado -- "Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays -- Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.…”
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Behind the scenes, Burning Man: the musical. 3, Somie Pak

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Behind the scenes, Burning Man: the musical. 5, Mila Jam

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Behind the scenes, Burning Man: the musical. 2, Ari Grooves

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Behind the scenes, Burning Man: the musical. 4, Max Crumm

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Behind the scenes, Burning Man: the musical. 1, Danny Marin

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The Don Giovanni moment : essays on the legacy of an opera

Table of Contents: “…Grey -- Don Juan as an idea / Bernard Williams -- Kierkegaard writes his opera / Daniel Herwitz -- The curse and promise of the absolutely musical : Tristan and Isolde and Don Giovanni / Lydia Goehr -- Authority and judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht -- Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's comedy / Agnes Heller -- Giovanni auf Naxos / Brian Soucek -- Homage to Adorno's 'Homage to Zerlina' / Berthold Hoeckner -- Adorno and the Don / Nikolaus Bacht.…”
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American Memory in Henry James : Void and Value. by Righter, William

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Author's note -- Acknowledgements, in Memoriam, by Rosemary Righter -- Part One: America Deconstructed -- 1 The Jamesian Perspective -- 2 The Composite Light -- 3 America and the Pathos of Desire -- Notes to Part One -- Part Two: The Note of Europe -- 4 An Encounter in Nôtre Dame -- 5 T̀here to Reconstruct' -- 6 The Comedy of Moral Terms -- 7 Strether's Reasons -- 8 Values in Collision -- 9 Nihilism and Decorum -- Notes to Part Two -- Part Three: Amerigo in an American Nowhere -- 10 Characters in a Void -- 11 The Shaping of the Prince -- 12 Anomalies of Place and Time -- Notes to Part Three -- Part Four: A Dark Fable of Love and Power -- 13 The Perilous Equilibrium -- 14 The Triumph of the Will -- 15 A Map of Incommensurability -- 16 Fictive Resolutions -- Notes to Part Four -- Part Five: Form and Contingency -- 17 From Portland Place to American City -- 18 In the Museum -- 19 The Elusive Synthesis -- 20 Coda: The C̀omplex Fate' -- Notes to Part Five -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Proust's English by Karlin, Daniel, 1953-

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Portraits of Medea in Portugal During the 20th and 21st Centuries by Pociña Pérez, Andrés

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Main Sources; 1 Euripides' Medea in Context; 2 Medea: the Bewitched Witch in Apollonius of Rhodes; 3 Versions of Medea in Classical Latin; 4 Os encantos de Medeia by António José da Silva: Comedy Version of a Tragic Theme (18th Century); 5 In Search of Lost Identity: Jean Anouilh's Medea; 6 The Reception of Medea in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Part 2 Portuguese Versions of Medea in the 20th and 21st Centuries; 7 Medea as an Aesthetic and Ethical Space in Fiama's Work…”
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A companion to Latin literature

Table of Contents: “…Levene -- The Augustan period, 40BC-AD 14 / Joseph Farrell -- The early empire, AD 14-68 / Roland Mayer -- The high empire, AD 69-200 / Bruce Gibson -- Narrative epic / Philip Hardie -- Didactic epic / Monica Gale -- Roman tragedy / Elaine Fantham -- Comedy, atellane farce and mime / Costas Panayotakis -- Pastoral / Stephen Heyworth -- Love elegy / Roy Gibson -- Satire / Llewelyn Morgan -- Lyric and iambic / Stephen Harrison -- Epigram / Lindsay C. …”
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Idols in the East : European representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 by Akbari, Suzanne Conklin

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Dante and Islam

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Coyote in the maze : tracking Edward Abbey in a world of words

Table of Contents: “…: Edward Abbey as philosopher / David Rothenberg -- Nativity, domesticity, and exile in Edward Abbey's One True Home / Tom Lynch -- Rage against the machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite thought / Paul Lindholdt -- Edward Abbey's inadvertent Postmodernism: theory, autobiography, and politics / William Chaloupka -- Abbey as anarchist / Harold Alderman -- Getting the desert into a book: Nature writing and the problem of representation in a postmodern world / Claire Lawrence -- Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's desert comedies / Rebecca Raglon -- Nietzschean themes in the works of Edward Abbey / Steve Norwick -- Edward Abbey's Cow / Barbara Barney Nelson -- Edward Abbey and Gender / Paul T. …”
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Southern women playwrights : new essays in literary history and criticism

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- Precursor and protégé : Lillian Hellman and Marsha Norman / Sally Burke -- "Un-ruling" the woman : comedy and the plays of Beth Henley and Rebecca Gilman / Janet L. …”
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Such a rare thing : the art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio by Lindsay, Clarence B.

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The humor of the Old South

Table of Contents: “…Ross -- Southwestern humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the comedy of frustration / R.J. Gray.…”
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Textual responses to German unification : processing historical and social change in literature and film

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A Companion to Irish Literature, 2 Volume Set. by Wright, Julia M.

Table of Contents: “…Depicting National Character: Memoirs of Miss Sidney BidulphAbusing (the) English: Sheridan's Comedies -- Reforming Lord George Sackville: The History of Nourjahad -- Conclusion -- 13: "The Indigent Philosopher": Oliver Goldsmith -- "Our Conquered Kingdom" -- "A Philosophic Vagabond" -- Citizens of the World -- The Patriot's Boast -- "England's Griefs" -- The Beauties of Goldsmith -- 14: Edmund Burke -- 15: The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Part Four: The Romantic Period -- 16: United Irish Poetry and Songs…”
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