20th century blues / by Miller, Susan, 1944-

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Sydney & the old girl / by O'Hare, Eugene, 1980-

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Tartuffe, the imposter / by Donnelly, John (Dramatist)

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The reverberator / by James, Henry, 1843-1916

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A history of English drama, 1660-1900. by Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976

Table of Contents: “…Types of Augustan comedy ; Elizabethan, Restoration and foreign models ; Comedies of manners ; Comedies of intrigue ; Comedies of humours ; Comedies of sensibility ; Farces -- Chapter four: Miscellaneous forms of drama. …”
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The school of scandal /

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Salem is my dwelling place : a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne / by Miller, Edwin Haviland

Table of Contents: “…"Salem is my dwelling place" -- The heritage: the Hathornes and the Mannings -- "The gentle boy" -- "Living upon Uncle Robert" -- Bowdoin College: venturing into the world -- Intercourse with the world: Fanshawe -- "Castle Dismal" -- Intercourse with the world: The early tales -- The Peabodys -- Two sisters in love -- Mary Silsbee: "Star of Salem" -- The comedy of manners ends happily -- Port-admiral at the Boston Custom-House -- "Thou art my type of womanly perfection" -- Book farm: "That abominable gold-mine" -- "I take this dove in bed and board -- Eden in Concord -- Margaret Fuller in Concord -- Intercourse with the world: Mosses from an old manse -- Salem, hail and farewell -- Intercourse with the world: The scarlet letter -- The Berkshires, 1850: enter Herman Melville -- Intercourse with the world: The house of the seven gables -- Lenox, 1851: intimations -- "Big hearts strike together" -- Intercourse with the world: The Blithedale romance -- President Pierce's "Prime minister" -- England: "I do not take root anywhere" -- Italy: "Dim reflections in my inward mirror" -- Intercourse with the world: The marble faun -- Concord, 1860-1862 -- The crack-up: the unfinished romances -- "The great, generous, brave heart beat no more."…”
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Music, theater, and society in the comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846) : amidst the lundu, the aria, and the alleluia / by Costa-Lima Neto, Luiz, 1964-

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Tartuffe, the imposter / by Donnelly, John (Dramatist)

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Idleness, indolence and leisure in English literature /

Table of Contents: “…Sadlek -- The dangers and pleasures of illing vacuous time: Idleness in early modern diaries / Mariam Nandi -- The 'sweet toyle' of blissful bowers: Arresting idleness in the English Renaissance / Abigail Scherer -- Idleness, apprentices and machines in Deloney and Dekker / Emily Anglin -- Idleness, class and gender in the long eighteenth century / Sarah Jordan -- The performativity of idleness: Representations and staging of idleness in the context of colonialism / Monika Fludernik -- Dramas of idleness: The comedy of manners in the works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde / Kerstin Fest -- Idleness and creativity: Poetic disquisitions on idleness in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Richard Adelman -- Versions of working-class idleness: non-productivity and the critique of Victorian workaholism / Benjamin Kohlmann -- Against busyness: Idling in Victorian and contemporary travel writing / Barbara Korte -- Tramping: The cult of the Vagabond in early twentieth-century England / Simon -- Englishness, summer and the pastoral of country leisure in twentieth-century literature / Leonie Wanitzek -- Sociology of leisure and the wars of the lifestyle Gurus / Ken Roberts -- Epilogue: Remember that Time is Knowledge, Health and Happiness: On the mysterious disappearance of leisure / Harmut Rosa.…”

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The ex-suicide : a Mountain Brook novel / by Clark, Katherine, 1962 November 11-

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Pride and prejudice / by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Panic and deaf : two modern satires / by Liang, Xiaosheng, 1949-

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The gay and festive Claverhouse : an extravaganza / by Warner, Anne, 1869-1913

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An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting / by Collier, Jane, 1715?-1755

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The modern movement, 1910-1940 / by Baldick, Chris

Table of Contents: “…From problem play to discussion play ; Comedy of manners: Maugham and Coward ; Historical and verse drama. -- Modern short stories. -- The modern novel: principles and methods. -- The modern novel as social chronicle. …”
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A companion to film comedy

Table of Contents: “…Sidney Drew (1908-1917); The ''Mark of the Ridiculous'' of Charlie Chaplin's ''Pierrot'' (1914-1918); The Mark of the Ridiculous and American Middle Class Silent Comedy of Manners (1915-1929); Conclusion: The Loss of Silents; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps: The Funny Women of the Silent Screen.…”
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The novel stage : narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen / by Frank, Marcie

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The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed /

Table of Contents: “…Tueth -- American situation comedies and the modern comedy of manners / David Pierson -- Who rules the roost? …”
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