Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... theatre dies with it . Scarcely had Con- greve , the last and greatest dramatist of the period , got into the saddle when he was pulled up short by the first on- slaught of the new morality . A spokesman for reaction had arrived in the ...
... theatre dies with it . Scarcely had Con- greve , the last and greatest dramatist of the period , got into the saddle when he was pulled up short by the first on- slaught of the new morality . A spokesman for reaction had arrived in the ...
Sivu 109
... theatre was as wavering in its impulses as the Caroline theatre was firm : far from having fixed laws , it veered with the winds of fashion ; and though it has a certain value as a social document , it has almost none as art . Indeed ...
... theatre was as wavering in its impulses as the Caroline theatre was firm : far from having fixed laws , it veered with the winds of fashion ; and though it has a certain value as a social document , it has almost none as art . Indeed ...
Sivu 291
... theatre , and to take waxen gen- tility out of it . Goldsmith , attempting no criticism of humanity , freely re- sorted to such stock comic devices as mistaken and con- cealed identity ; and Sheridan followed suit . In Sheridan ...
... theatre , and to take waxen gen- tility out of it . Goldsmith , attempting no criticism of humanity , freely re- sorted to such stock comic devices as mistaken and con- cealed identity ; and Sheridan followed suit . In Sheridan ...
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