Love's Comedy (Esprios Classics)

Love's Comedy (Esprios Classics)
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006227769

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements.

Love's Labour's Lost (Esprios Classics)

Love's Labour's Lost (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781034984900

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn, (break their oath). In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalisation, and reality versus fantasy.

Love in a Cloud (Esprios Classics)

Love in a Cloud (Esprios Classics)
Author: Arlo Bates
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 - August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman. Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880-1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.

The Love-Tiff (Esprios Classics)

The Love-Tiff (Esprios Classics)
Author: Moliere
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006538384

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière (1622- 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. He studied at the Jesuit Clermont College, then left to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years on the road as an actor helped him to polish his comic abilities, while he also began writing combining Commedia dell'Arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of a few aristocrats including the brother of Louis XIV, he procured a command performance before the King at the Louvre. He was granted the use of the Salle du Petit-Bourbon at the Louvre and the Palais-Royal. He found success among the Parisians with plays such as The Affected Ladies, The School for Husbands and The School for Wives.