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Pamela Allen Brown

Book DescriptionIn a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little access to popular culture because of their low literacy and social marginality, Brown demonstrates that women often bested all comers in the arenas of jesting, gaining a few heady moments of agency. Juxtaposing the literature of jest against court records, sermons, and conduct books, Brown employs a witty, entertaining style to propose that non-elite women used jests to test the limits of their subjection. She also shows how women?s mocking laughter could function as a means of social control in closely watched neighborhoods. While official culture beatified the sheep-like wife and disciplined the scold, jesting culture often applauded the satiric shrew, whether her...

David Ives

Book DescriptionThis collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All in the Timing: Polish Joke, a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes; Don Juan in Chicago, in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil, only to become a reluctant Latin lover; Ancient History, a comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love; and The Red Address,the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.

Edward Albee

Book Description A wicked, concise, and provocative summation of the themes that have guided Edward Albee?s legendary career, The Play About the Baby is a hilarious and intriguing exploration of the bonds between parents and children.

Robert Daborne

Tom Murphy

J. M. Barrie

Book Description1918. Sir James Matthew, Baronet Barrie a Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer who became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan, the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and wouldnot grow up. This volume contains the following plays: Quality Street; The Admirable Crichton; What Every Woman Knows; Dear Brutus; The Twelve-Pound Look; and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

William Shakespeare

Bruce J Bloom

Book Description FIVE SHORT PLAYS THAT MAKE AUDIENCES LAUGH AND BELIEVE ?Well-crafted plays of depth and heart, with irresistible characters that deliver the laughs.? John Driver Co-Artistic Director, Innovative Stages, Westchester County, NY ?Perfect balance of humor and pathos Bloom is a master of dialog.? Sandee Martin Veteran director for Westchester theatre groups ?Warm, funny plays a hit with our audiences.? Irit Magnes Jewish Cultural Director, Robert and Dorothy Ludwig Schenectady Jewish Community Center Can You Ever Forgive Arthur Kleinman? Forty years ago, Arthur refused to go through with his bar mitzvah. Will his 91-year-old rebbe finally forgive him? Daniel Ortega And Those Yom Kippur Blues Arthur?s back, looking for his lost faith, this time in a Latino saloon, where he finds it?s easier...

John Galsworthy

Book Description1909. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. Contents: The Silver Box; Strife; Justice; ThePigeon; A Bit O'Love; and Loyalties. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Walter Begley

Book Description1905. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766172112, 0766172120. Volume 3 of 3. Mr. Begley claims to have brought forward in these works a large mass of material, much of which is new, tending to show that young Francis Bacon was in those earlier years, of which Spedding knew so little, busily engaged both in poetical criticism and in philosophical speculations concerning poetry - an education and preparation for his own vast schemes for the common good.