English and American drama of the nineteenth century

Prudence and Robin Tremaine, are children of the notorious and brilliant Viscount of Barham, find themselves on the wrong side of the Jacobite rebellion. The brothers have been dissemblers since they were children. And in this age of slippery politics, they need to be. Their infamous adventurer father has taught Prudence and her brother Robin to be masters of disguise. To escape detection, the Viscount sends his offspring on the road to London, each masquerading as the opposite sex. Prudence pretending to be a dashing young buck, and Robin as a lovely young lady. During the travelling to London to meet their eccentric and rather wayward father, they take a break for a meal, and overhear what is clearly a reluctant elopement... and decide to get involved. It quickly becomes clear that the brother and sister are not exactly what they seem to be... For they it is nothing to rescue the charming Letitia Grayson, a rich heiress from her abductor. But once committed to their masquerade, they must see it through. And now, with their own Iives at stake, they hid in the very limelight of London society. As Peter Merriot, captivating Prudence became the favorite companion of dashing and elegant aristocrat Sir Anthony Fanshawe, her guise that become highly inconvenient when she falls for him, even though discovery of her true identity meant death. Just as it seemed as though her mad pose might succeed, she was challenged to a duel. Prudence knew it would not he long before this tall, sleepy-eyed gentleman fathomed her desperate secret. The two masqueraders must find a way to unmask themselves without losing their lives?

The apotheosis of stage endeavour. The crowning triumph of the world's most gifted theatrical geniuses, the New York Hippodrome original, stupendous production of Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera classic "Pinafore," direct from the world's largest playhouse, presented on a scale of spectacular splendor never before attempted. A real ship on real water, biggest singing chorus ever sent on tour.

"Corinne, or Italy (1807). A romantic novel by Mme de Staël. Oswald Nevil, and English lord, recuperating in Rome, meets the famous poetess Corinne, who, half-English and half-Italian, has exiled herself from her native England. They fall in love, and Nevil wishes to marry Corinne, but she hesitates, fearing the rigidity of the English life she once knew; her present unconventional life is too dear to her. Oswald, forced to return to England, later gives in to the pressures of his social ilieu and marries the wholly English Lucile, half sister of Corinne. When she learns of the marriage, Corinne dies of grief. idealistic and passionate, Corinne is a psychological study of two tormented souls and is a celebrated description of Italian civilization and mores." - - from Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition

When Falstaff meets Mistresses Page and Ford, two married women said to control their own financial affairs, he writes identical love letters to each of them, never imagining that they will compare notes. When they do, they vow to trick Falstaff.

Albine. Quoi ? Tandis que Neron s'abandonne au sommeil, faut-il que vous veniez attendre son reveil ? Qu'errant dans le palais sans suite et sans escorte, la mere de Cesar veille seule a sa porte ? Madame, retournez dans votre appartement. Agrippine. Albine, il ne faut pas s'eloigner un moment. Je veux l'attendre ici. Les chagrins qu'il me cause m'occuperont assez tout le temps qu'il repose. Tout ce que j'ai predit n'est que trop assure : contre Britannicus Neron s'est declare ; l'impatient Neron cesse de se contraindre ; las de se faire aimer, il veut se faire craindre. Britannicus le gene, Albine ; et chaque jour je sens que je deviens importune a mon tour. Albine. Quoi ? Vous a qui Neron doit le jour qu'il respire, qui l'avez appele de si loin a l'empire ? Vous qui desheritant le fils de Claudius, avez nomme Cesar l'heureux Domitius ? Tout lui parle, madame, en faveur d'Agrippine : il vous doit son amour.

The enormous working-class sale of Paine's Rights of man Part I was met on the right both by censorship and by the promotion of popular literature dedicated to political stability. Village politics urges the working man: 'study to be quiet, work with your hands, and mind your own business'. The Cheap repository tracts, which began to appear two years later, had similar aims but in the framework of religious renewal. The shepherd of Salisbury Plain, celebrating piety, poverty and simplicity, was one of the most popular; first published in 1795, it is here reproduced in a more legible text of the 1820s.

Printed libretto, 40 p.

LOCRINE, King of Britain. CAMBER, King of Wales, brother to LOCRINE. MADAN, son to LOCRINE and GUENDOLEN. DEBON, Lord Chamberlain.

A biography of the legendary king of medieval Britain who became the central figure in a series of tales describing his own heroic deeds and those of his knights.

it looks like an older book and it has oxford edition on the binding and it has a signature it's got a date of dec.25.1895 and i wold like more info on it thank for your time

Arthur Pinero wrote The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1893 after penning several successful farces. Playing on the “woman with a past” plot that was popular in melodramas, Pinero steered it in a more serious direction, centering the play around the social consequences arising when Aubrey Tanqueray remarries in an attempt to redeem a woman with a questionable past. The play’s structure is based on the principles of the “well-made play” popular throughout the 19th-century. But just as Wilde manipulated the conventions of the “well-made play” to produce a new form of comedy, so did Arthur Pinero manipulate it, forgoing the happy ending to produce an elevated form of tragedy. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was first performed in 1893, at the St. James Theatre, London, at a time when England was still resisting the growing movement in Europe towards realism and the portrayal of real social problems and human misconduct. But while it was regarded as shocking, it ran well and made a substantial profit. Theatre historian J. P. Wearing phrased it thus: “although not as avant-garde as Ibsen’s plays, Tanqueray confronted its fashionable St. James’s audiences with as forceful a social message as they could stomach.”

Satanella was written in 1874 in the Czech language. Satanella is "...lovingly dedicated to the cherished memory of my brother, Dr. Josef Ginsburg whose untimely death on a forgotten battlefield of war-mad Europe left an irreparable void in my life." After this dedication there is a nice photo of the poet, with his signature underneath. Drawings are by Y. Victor Brozek. Pages 7 through 10, written in Chicago in May 1932 by John J. Reichman, PhD., J.D., are a tribute to the poet who died in 1912. Pages 11 & 12 are a preface, written in Berwyn, Illinois by the translator, Roderick A. Ginsburg. This is followed by a Prologue, then the heart of the book, an epic love poem. The last page, #69 is the Epilogue. Another page states that this edition "...consists of 250 Privately Printed and numbered copies of which only 200 are for sale." This book is #81, & carries an inscription prior to the title page signed by the translator.

A new mystery for Kevin Kerney of the New Mexico State Police involves an investigation into the apparent murder of an unidentified woman whose bones Kerney found on a beautiful ranch that he just inherited.

The second major poem from Sydney Dobell in his spasmodic career. This is the first part of a two part poem/play. The second was never completed but the first was complete by itself. The poem is written in first person and narrates about a hero, the Balder, and his many encounters in his world.

A historical novel first published in 1817, this was one of the first popular novels to attempt the use of regional dialect, in this case both Scottish highland and lowland dialects with a glossary of Scottish words. The story is set immediately before the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and follows the narrator, an English merchant, to Scotland in pursuit of a debt. Here he encounters Rob Roy MacGregor, a larger-than-life character fighting for social justice for his kinsmen.

The final part of Tennyson's trilogy of plays, Queen Mary depicts the decline of Roman Catholic influence in England.

Wartime confusion, stolen identity, reformation of fallen women, all tossed together by Collins in this sensation novel about the strict rules and principles of Victorian society against erring or working women. An easy read, if not perhaps in the first ranks of the Wilkie gold standard. Recommended.