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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens |
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… |
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The Rivals / The School for Scandal / The Critic
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Three (anti)sentimental comedies by a noted eighteenth century dramatist. |
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The school for scandal, 1780
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777. The play is still popular and regularly performed today. It is a comedy of manners about "the deceptive nature of appearances, … |
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Plays
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Major british playwrighter of the 18C |
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Mrs. Warren's Profession
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George Bernard Shaw |
From the book:Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all but the strongest… |
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Plays Extravagant (Millionairess / Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles / Too True to be Good)
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George Bernard Shaw |
| Too true to be good |
| The simpleton of the unexpected isles |
| The millionairess. | |
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Plays Political (Apple Cart / On the Rocks / Geneva)
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George Bernard Shaw |
The apple cart
On the rocks
Geneva. |
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The Portable Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw |
Five plays complete:
Devil's Disciple
[Pygmalion](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion)
In the Beginning
Heartbreak House
Shakes versus shav
The celebrated "Don Juan in Hell" sc… |
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Back to Methuselah
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George Bernard Shaw |
Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
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Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw,George Bernard Shaw |
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
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Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw |
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the… |
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The complete plays of Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson |
Ben Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly 'Volpone', 'The Alchemist', and 'Barthol… |
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Murder in the Cathedral
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T. S. Eliot |
A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a c… |
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MARKET BOY
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David Eldridge |
126 pages ; 20 cm |
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The changeling
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Thomas Middleton,Trevor R. Griffiths,William Rowley |
Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-… |
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ELMINA'S KITCHEN
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KWAME KWEI-ARMAH |
94 p. ; 20 cm |
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SIR THOMAS MORE
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Anthony Munday |
xxi, 85 pages ; 20 cm |
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On Mozart
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Anthony Burgess |
The author uses an imaginary conversation to pay tribute to Mozart on the bicentennial of his death, describing his contributions to the Enlightenment, discussing the phenomenon of a prodigy, and spe… |
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Sunday Under Three Heads
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Charles Dickens |
Charles Dickens defends the innocent recreations of the poor. |
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A House of Pomegranates
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Oscar Wilde |
**A House of Pomegranates** is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that… |
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