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Writers and their Work series No 129. Published for The British Council and the National Book League. A short introduction to the pkays The Comedy of Errors,The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labours Lost. The Merchant of Venice. 60p. illus.bibliography Book
72 pages. Features: Girl Who Married a Family - Joan Beaulieu was wed at 21 - to a husband and six lively boys! - article with nice photos; Full-page colour photo ad for an apparently short-lived product from the Campbell's soup people - Red Kettle Chicken Noodle Soup; We Waste Too Much Time Sleeping - So says Dr. Mangalore Narasimha Pai - who sleeps only three hours each night - article with photos; Using Television in Education at Queen Elizabeth High School in Nova Scotia - article with photos; Photos of amazing oversized typwriter and people; Welsh girl Valerie Gearon stars in film about Gandhi - article with colour photos; Mouth-watering colour photo ad for Lowney's Bridge Mixture candies; Photos of Polar bear and her cub; How to Make Kids' Sports Safer - article with colour photos of (now antiquated) hockey equipment; Nice two-page colour ad for Arrow shirts; Why Soviet Aid Failed to Stave Off Chaos - Understanding Cuba - part 2 of 2 - article with photos; Colour centerfold ad for Parker pens; Edie Adams goes it alone - article with photo about Ernie Kovacs' widow who is now back on the stage; Fantastic colour photo and write-up of Toronto Maple Leaf star Frank Mahovlich; Ottawa's Tudor Singers - article and cover photo; Handicapped Artists Who Help Themselves; Harold Lloyd Rediscovered - his zany comedy stil draw laughs - article with photos; Flying Santa from the Lakehead - Orville Wieben flies north from Fort William each Christmas to distribute clothing, toys, etc. to needy native kids - article with nice colour photo of native babies strapped onto colourful boards; Fashion photos of "Frivolous Nothings"; Nipper comic.Westclox colour ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
[… quod … pro gradu doctoratus … in Academia Lugduno-Batava … submittet Franciscus Benedictus Trosée], [viii] + 64pp., 23cm., original softcover (repaired), few foxing, text in good condition, [text in Latin], K75649
8vo, 160 pages, illustrated. eng
A couple of corners and 1 edge are bumped. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; Text in Greek or English with one paper in German. Festschrift in honor of G. M. Sifakis. ; 699 pages
A couple of corners very lightly bumped. Light staining to spine. Sunning to part of front board. ; Text in Greek or English with one paper in German. Festschrift in honor of G. M. Sifakis. ; 699 pages
Light creasing to corners. Creasing along spine. Light discoloration to spine. ; From the proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXIII. [315] -331. Publishes the opening verses of Menander's best comedies, Misoumenos, which were discovered on fragmentary papyri from Oxyrhynchus. ; 16 pages
Spine tanned and lower half reinforced with cellotape. Faint creasing to pages. ; Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 17; 73 pages
Full blue cloth boards; clean and unmarked. Blue ribbon bookmark. Slipcase is in Very Good condition with spots and scuff marks. 1030 pages.
Endpapers browned. Some foxing. Former owner's name on ffep. Some spotting to boards. Edgewear to extremities. ; 135 pages
in-8, 130 pp., broché, couv. carton souple. Bel exemplaire [SO-7]
"Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth and twentieth-century Greece. [This is] the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences." 284p. bibliography.index Book
New. Unwrapped in plastic; 255 pages; Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes--far from being nonpolitical--actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.
Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 255 pages; Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes--far from being nonpolitical--actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.
191pp., 24cm., in the series "Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia" volume XVII (17), softcover, fine condition, [introduction and commentary in English, text in Latin], T74586
Full brown cloth boarrds show a bit of fading at edges; brown ink from cloth has rubbed off onto inside of dust jacket at bottom edge. Edge wear to dust jacket. Stated First Printing. "Palm Sunday is a marvelous pastiche of speeches, letters, fiction, articles--even a musical comedy--woven together by a narrative in the distinctive, ironic Vonnegut voice to form an autobiography presenting the life and opinions of Kurt Vonnegut in his own words." [blurb]
Small tear (1.5 cm) to top of spine and a minor bump. Former owner's name to front cover. Spine a bit browned. ; Vii, 273pp, 3pls. ; Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 112; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 273 pages
Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Faint crease to lower corner of front wrap and first few pages. Light crease to spine. ; 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from novels and newspaper columns to billboards and emails. The book enables you to enhance your grasp of the comic through familiarity with characteristic structures and patterns, referring to comedy in literature, film and television throughout. Perfect for drama and literature students, this Introduction explores a genre which affects the everyday lives of us all, and will therefore also capture the interest of anyone who loves to laugh. ; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; 254 pages
439p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, clean & tight
Light browning to endpapers. Some fraying to spine ends. Corners somewhat edgeworn. Some shelfwear. ; 490 pages
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 356 pages; The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi -- Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter, or just cousins? / Ewen Bowie -- The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio -- Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover -- Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings -- Languages on stage: Aristophanic language, cultural history, and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi -- Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Mageiros Poietes: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov -- Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott -- Speech within speech in Menander / René Nünlist.
371p. Some signatures loose. Old staining. Foxed. Original worn full brown publisher's cloth binding, publisher's initials embossed on front board. First Edition. HUMOR 8
in-4° XXII-264 pages, bl./wh. illustr., index, bind. in boards, plast. dustjacket. VG+/VG [PL-EN]
1st edition. 4to, 87 pages, illustrated by Frank Dickens. Good condition in glazed pictorial boards. Fly title page has been removed. 40520. eng
Foxing to some pages. No other marks or inscriptions. Booklet has been folded into four, so well creased. 16pp. In the Yorkshire Series of Humorous Dialogues Sketches & Recitations - No 119. Script for a comedy sketch for three males and four females. Extremely scarce.