Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Author: Diana Solomon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611494222

This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Outlining Your Novel Workbook

Outlining Your Novel Workbook
Author: K. M. Weiland
Publisher: Penforasword
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780985780425

Learn How to Make Your First Draft Easy!Award-winning author K.M. Weiland's previous book, the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, showed writers how to embrace outlines in a way that makes the writing process fun, inspiring, and easy.Now it's time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles you've already learned, the Outlining Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to getting the bones of your story down on paper, identifying plot holes, and brainstorming exciting new possibilities.Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how to:Create your own personalized outlining processBrainstorm premise and plot ideasDiscover your charactersChoose and create the right settingsOrganize your scenesAnd so much more!This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create a powerful outline--and an outstanding novel.Start writing your best book today!

Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces

Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces
Author: Daniel James Ennis
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874139679

Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to playhouse audiences from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play itself, but on what surrounded the mainpiece for the total theater experience of the day. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance texts, including prologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpieces, that merged to define the overall theatrical event.

Making Shapely Fiction

Making Shapely Fiction
Author: Jerome Stern
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0393077691

A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale

The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1316615472

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.