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The Importance of Being Earnest

Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest

Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wi...

Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian...

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Оскар Уайльд

The Importance of Being Earnest and...

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Five Other Plays

Witty playwright Oscar Wilde is most famous for his 1895 play «The Importance of Being Earnest.» The two protagonists use a false identity, Earnest, as a way to escape from unwanted social obligations. However, they encounter difficulties keeping up their personas as their social circles draw closer together. Wilde drew upon what he thought were outrageous social conventions of the Victorian Era and used satire to show the absurdity of its beliefs, like how marriage was more of a boring burden...

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Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and...

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays” brings together Oscar Wilde’s most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde’s plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, “The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the author’s most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend to be people that they are not in order to escape...

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Oscar Wilde

The Inca of Perusalem, Augustus Doe...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Inca of Perusalem, Augustus Does His Bit, and Annajanska, the Bolsheik Empress

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot,...

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General

"The Inspector-General" by Nikolai Gogol (translated by Arthur A. Sykes). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...

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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General (The Governme...

Николай Гоголь

The Inspector-General (The Government Inspector)

Based upon a personal anecdote recounted to Gogol by the great Russian poet Pushkin, «The Inspector-General», also known as «The Government Inspector», is a satirical play first published in 1836. It is a comedy of errors that unstintingly portrays human greed and stupidity. The plot centers around the officials of a small provincial town in Russia, who have been informed that a dreaded inspector is soon to arrive. They mistakenly assume that the inspector is Khlestakov, an irresponsible,...

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Николай Гоголь

The Kilroys List, Volume Two

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The Kilroys List, Volume Two

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The King of Rome

Charles Desnoyer

The King of Rome

Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Léon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French throne, the Duke was kept in ignorance of his father's identity, as well as of the basic facts of recent...

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Charles Desnoyer

The King of the Dark Chamber

Rabindranath Tagore

The King of the Dark Chamber

Sings. We are all Kings in the kingdom of our King. Were it not so, how could we hope in our heart to meet him! We do what we like, yet we do what he likes; We are not bound with the chain of fear at the feet of a slave-owning King. Were it not so, how could we hope in our heart to meet him! Our King honours each one of us, thus honours his own very self. No...

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Rabindranath Tagore

The Knights

Aristophanes

The Knights

In many respects 'The Knights' may be reckoned the great Comedian's masterpiece, the direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon, with its scathing satire and tremendous invective, being one of the most vigorous and startling things in literature. Already in 'The Acharnians' he had threatened to «cut up Cleon the Tanner into shoe-leather for the Knights,» and he now proceeds to carry his menace into execution, «concentrating the whole force of his wit in the...

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Aristophanes

The Lady From The Sea

Henrik Ibsen

The Lady From The Sea

Written in 1888, «The Lady from the Sea» is Henrik Ibsen's drama about a married couple, Ellida and Doctor Wangel. Doctor Wangel, a widower with two daughters, begins to notice Ellida, a much younger woman, becoming increasingly anxious and strange in her demeanor. Fearing a problem with her mental health he asks his former headmaster, Arnholm, to come for a visit in hopes that he may be able to help. It is soon discovered that Ellida was once engaged to a sailor and that he has returned....

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Henrik Ibsen

The Lady from the Sea

Henrik Ibsen

The Lady from the Sea

"The Lady from the Sea" by Henrik Ibsen (translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...

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Henrik Ibsen

The League of Youth

Henrik Ibsen

The League of Youth

"The League of Youth" is Henrik Ibsen's comedic play which is the story of Stensgaard, a charismatic would-be politician, who forms the 'League of Youth' party and attempts to get elected. The character of Stensgaard is supposedly based on writer Bjornstjerne Bjornson, a contemporary of Ibsen and political opposition leader. Praised for its witty dialogue and cynical humor, «The League of Youth» was one of Ibsen's most popular 19th century plays.

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Henrik Ibsen

The Litigants

Jean Racine

The Litigants

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Molière and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is one of the best examples of such use noted for its harmony, simplicity and elegance. While critics over the centuries have debated the worth of Jean Racine, at present, he is widely considered a...

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Jean Racine

The Mad Marquis

Александр Дюма

The Mad Marquis

Written in 1836, this collaborative play is based on a real-life incident, using the actual names of the principals involved. The young Marquis de Brunoy is snubbed at the French Royal Court of Versailles because his father, a financier, had been ennobled for his great wealth. After having to fight several duels to defend his honor, the Marquis strikes back by disregarding his rank and wealth, and associating with peasants and artisans as equals. The more extravagant that his behavior becomes,...

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Александр Дюма

The Magnetic Lady, or, Humours Reco...

Ben Jonson

The Magnetic Lady, or, Humours Reconciled

Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. His career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in «The Admiral's Men», and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Although Jonson attained a long and thriving career, the majority of his major works for which he is revered were produced between 1605 and 1620. In his...

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Ben Jonson

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington's «The Magnificent Ambersons» is the second book in his Growth trilogy, which depicts Mid-Western life from the post-Civil War era to the early twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this novel follows the decline of the Ambersons, an aristocratic family that loses their wealth and social prominence to tycoons and land developers. Considered a realistic portrayal of the rise of industrialization, the Ambersons represent the fall of old money and family...

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Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

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Booth Tarkington

The Mammary Plays

Paula Vogel

The Mammary Plays

Mineola Twins was first produced at The Perseverance Theatre in Alaska and is currently running at Trinity Repertory in Providence. How I Learned to Drive is currently in its premiere production at New York’s Vineyard Theatre.

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Paula Vogel

The Manifestos and Essays

Richard Foreman

The Manifestos and Essays

"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews, provide a fascinating window into Richard Foreman's singular mind and creative process. Also included is The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), his last play...

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Richard Foreman

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre de Beaumarchais

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a series of lawsuits in Paris, the accounts of his trials made his reputation as a sarcastic,...

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Pierre de Beaumarchais

The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen

The Master Builder

Written in 1892, later in Ibsen's life, «The Master Builder,» or «Bygmester Solness,» is a 3-act play that explores the conflicted thoughts and feelings of the hardened and powerful artist Halvard Solness. He is an older architect who painstakingly worked his way to professional distinction at the cost of his personal life. As he reflects on his career, Halvard is frustrated with his ambition and dreams of achieving genuine satisfaction in his life. At the same time, he fears being...

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Henrik Ibsen

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