The Merry Devils

Download or read book The Merry Devils written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had the power to assume a pleasing shape, but would he take to the stage . . . ? The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third demon seemed too much like the real thing. Even Nicholas Bracewell, the company mainstay, was shaken when, next time the play was given, only one devil appeared. The second, poor fellow, was now only a little red heap backstage. Murdered. Before the curtain rose again, Lord Westfield's Men would suffer the sermons of a puritan fanatic, the enchantment of passion, the terror of a London madhouse, prophecies of a famous alchemist, and danger as they'd never known it before . . .

Download or read book The Merry Devil of Edmonton written by Anonymous and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Devil of Edmonton lay unperformed from the early seventeenth century until the 1980s. Dating from around 1604, it was first published in 1608 and was performed at the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. With its scenes of magic, deer poaching, and abduction from a nunnery, The Merry Devil of Edmonton combines romance and comedy in a highly entertaining way, and was a favorite production on the seventeenth century stage.

Download or read book The Merry Devils written by Edward Marston and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v. 3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v. 4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v. 5 King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v. 6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v. 7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v. 8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350–1642 written by John D. Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E. K. Chambers' ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained this shape virtually unchanged until the advent of permanent commercial theatres near London. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama including the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. An appendix lists all known devil plays in English from the beginning to 1642.

Download or read book The Devil written by Darren Oldridge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil was a commanding figure in Tudor and Stuart England. He played a leading role in the religious and political conflicts of the age, and inspired great works of poetry and drama. During the turmoil of the English Civil War, fears of a secret conspiracy of Devil-worshippers fuelled a witch-hunt that claimed at least a hundred lives. This book traces the idea of the Devel from the English Reformation to the scientific revolution of the late seventeenth century. It shows that he was not only a central figure in the imaginative life of the age, but also a deeply ambiguous and complex one: the avowed enemy of God and his unwilling accomplice, and a creature that provoked fascination, comdey and dread.

Download or read book The Devil Is An Ass written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index.