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The Bourgeois Gentleman (World Classics) by Molière
epub |eng | 2016-07-17 | Author:Molière

MADAME JOURDAIN: Madame Jourdain kisses your hands [but declines]. DORANTE: (Aside to Monsieur Jourdain) Our beautiful marchioness, as I sent word to you, in my note, will come here soon ...
( Category: Playwriting July 2,2020 )
Shakespeare's Bawdy by Partridge Eric;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Partridge, Eric; [ERIC PARTRIDGE: SHAKESPEARE’S BAWDY]

lie on. To coït with (a woman). ‘Iago. Lie— Othello. With her?— Iago. With her, on her; what you will.—Othello. Lie with her! lie on her!’: IV i 34–35. lie ...
( Category: Drama July 2,2020 )
Kant, Shelley and the Visionary Critique of Metaphysics by O. Bradley Bassler
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:O. Bradley Bassler

Peirce then shows that the probability that a player will eventually net a one franc gain is one: “Consequently there would be a continual outflow of money from the bank. ...
( Category: Poetry July 2,2020 )
Being Property Once Myself by Joshua Bennett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Joshua Bennett

Here, in Susan Byrd’s retelling of an age-old local myth, we hear an echo of Porter’s lament earlier in the novel, his desire to be released from the heaviness of ...
( Category: United States July 2,2020 )
A New Companion to Milton by Corns Thomas N.;
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Corns, Thomas N.; [Corns, Thomas N.]

Deprivation increases desire by explaining the nature of desire to itself, thus making loneliness theoretically intelligible. It is not the Fall, however, that deprives us of the ideal marital scenario, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 1,2020 )
Aladdin and Other Fairy Tales by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Andrew Lang

WHY THE SEA IS SALT Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were two brothers, the one rich and the other poor. When Christmas Eve came, the poor one ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology June 30,2020 )
Machines for Living by Victoria Rosner
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Victoria Rosner [Rosner, Victoria]

The meal is ended, she is bored and tired, Endeavours to engage her in caresses Which still are unreproved, if undesired. Flushed and decided, he assaults at once (ll. 236–9) ...
( Category: Women June 29,2020 )
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton
epub |eng | 2014-12-28 | Author:Michael Newton [Michael Newton]

‘He began to play, and then all smiles ceased.’ ‘Indeed!’ cried the King. ‘Then I too would fain hear her. But stay with me, and I will send messengers all ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology June 28,2020 )
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
epub |eng | | Author:Guojun Wang

Opening the book, a reader first encounters the page showing the title of the drama, the time of printing, and the owner of the woodblock plates (figure 4.1). As the ...
( Category: Drama June 28,2020 )
English Drama Before Shakespeare by Peter Happe;
epub |eng | 1999-06-15 | Author:Peter Happe;

II In this section we turn to a variety of interludes coming from the period 1510 to 1579. It is convenient to group them as follows: • political allegories: Youth, ...
( Category: Drama June 26,2020 )
Au Revoir, Tristesse by Viv Groskop
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. True happiness may involve quite a lot of hypocrisy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Or: Beware people who dump you by leaving a note in a basket of apricots) ...
( Category: Humor June 23,2020 )
Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge by Wai-yee Li
epub |eng | | Author:Wai-yee Li

YOU TONG, “ON THE MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE PLANK BRIDGE” Yu Huai showed me The Miscellaneous Records of the Plank Bridge, which he authored, so that I could write a ...
( Category: Women June 19,2020 )
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:W. H. Auden

The idea of such an action, a pure assertion of self-autonomy, seemed to Augustine to be the central problem of ethics. One acts not on a motive of pleasure or ...
( Category: Poetry June 17,2020 )
Six Plays by Luigi Pirandello
epub |eng | 2020-01-10 | Author:Luigi Pirandello

Act Three The throne room is dark. The back wall is just visible. The two portraits have been removed from their frames, and in their place stand FRIDA, in the ...
( Category: Playwriting June 16,2020 )
C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing by Latta Corey
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Latta, Corey [Latta, Corey]

266 . Hooper, Collected Letters 1 .277–78 . 267 . Ibid., 460 . 268 . Ibid., 465 . 269 . Ibid., 466 . 270 . Ibid. 271 . King, C. ...
( Category: Religion June 14,2020 )

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