Search Results - "Aphra Behn"

The lucky chance, or, The alderman's bargain by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689

The thread of laughter : chapters on English stage comedy from Jonson to Maugham by Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980

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Four great Restoration comedies by Dover Publications, Inc

Table of Contents: “…The country wife (1675) / William Wycherley -- The man of mode (1676) / Sir George Etherage -- The rover (1677) / Aphra Behn -- The relapse (1696) / Sir John Vanbrugh.…”
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Women playwrights in England, c. 1363-1750 by Cotton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance noblewomen -- Aphra Behn -- The female wits: Catherine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, Mary Pix -- Susanna Centlivre -- Minor women playwrights 1670-1750 -- The Salic law of wit -- Astrea and Orinda.…”

The Meridian anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-century plays by women

Table of Contents: “…Sir Patient Fancy / Aphra Behn -- The Spanish wives / Mary Griffith Pix -- A bold stroke for a wife / Susanna Centlivre -- The group / Mercy Otis Warren -- The Witlings / Frances Burney -- The belle's stratagem / Hannah Cowley -- Such things are / Elizabeth Inchbald.…”

Talking About Plays - The Rover: An Interview with Loveday Ingram

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Restoration comedy

Types of drama : plays and contexts

The Bedford introduction to drama

Table of Contents: “…Plays: The rising of the moon / Lady Gregory -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus Rex ; Antigone / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Dulcitius / Hrosvitha -- Lady Han (Hanjo) / Zeami Motokiyo -- The second shepherd's play -- Everyman -- Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- A midsummer night's dream ; Hamlet ; Othello / William Shakespeare -- The masque of blackness / Ben Jonson -- Life is a dream / Pedro Calderón de la Barca -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The rover, or, The banished cavaliers / Aphra Behn -- The love suicides at Sonezaki / Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- She stoops to conquer, or, The mistakes of a night / Oliver Goldsmith -- A doll house / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people / Oscar Wilde -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Mrs. …”

How to teach a play : essential exercises for popular plays

Table of Contents: “…Hubris and Hamartia based on Aristotle's Poetics -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- The Eumenides / Aeschylus -- Antigone/ Sophocles -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The Twin Menaechmi / Plautus -- The Second Shepherd's Play / The Wakefield Master -- Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo -- Everyman / Anonymous -- A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of Othello / William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure / William Shakespeare -- The Tragedy of King Lear / William Shakespeare -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Life is a Dream / Pedro Calderón de la Barca -- Tartuffe / Molière -- The Misanthrope / Molière -- Restoration Theater audiences -- The Country Wife / William Wycherley -- The Rover / Aphra Behn -- The Way of the World / William Congreve -- The School for Scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Woyzeck / Georg Büchner -- A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Three Sisters / Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Six Characters in Search of an Author / Luigi Pirandello -- Juno and the Paycock / Sean O'Casey -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- The House of Bernarda Alba / Federico García Lorca -- Our Town / Thornton Wilder -- Mother Courage and Her Children / Bertolt Brecht -- Long Day's Journey into Night / Eugene O'Neill -- The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The Crucible / Arthur Miller -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Tennessee Williams -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- The Birthday Party / Harold Pinter -- Rhinoceros / Eugene Ionesco -- A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The Zoo Story / Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? …”

The Norton anthology of poetry

Table of Contents: “…Caedmon's hymn -- From Beowulf -- The seafarer -- Anonymous lyrics of the 12th and 14th centuries -- Chaucer -- William Langland -- Pearl -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Anne Askew -- Queen Elizabeth I -- George Gasciogne -- Isabella Whitney -- Chdiock Tichborne -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Edmund Spenser -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Robert Southwell -- Mary Sidney -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare (Sonnets and songs from the plays, and The phoenix and the turtle) --Thomas Campion -- Thomas Nashe -- Aemilia Lanyer -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- Mary Wroth -- Robert Herrick -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- Thomas Carew -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Anne Bradstreet -- Richard Crashaw -- Richard Lovelace -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Dryden -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- Edward Taylor -- Aphra Behn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Jonathan Swift -- Isaac Watts -- John Gay -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- James Thomson -- Samuel Johnson -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Christopher Smart -- Jean Elliot -- Oliver Goldsmith -- William Cowper -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Charlotte Smith -- Phillis Wheatley -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Robert Browning -- Emily Bronte -- Arthur Hugh Clough -- Julia Ward Howe -- Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- Matthew Arnold -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- George Meredith -- Emily Dickinson -- Christina Rosetti -- Lewis Carroll -- W.S. …”