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1	She stoops to conquer more books like this by Oliver Goldsmith add to wishlist The action of She Stoops to Conquer (1773) is largely confined to a night and a day in Squire Hardcastle's somewhat dilapidated country house: Young Marlow, on his way there to meet the bride his father has chosen for him, loses his way and arrives at the house assuming it is an inn. The prospect of meeting the genteel Miss Hardcastle terrifies ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Hay fever more books like this by Sir Noel Coward, Professor Flo Gibson (Narrator) add to wishlist First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £6.23! \| first editions
3	Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom more books like this by Cesar Lombardi Barber add to wishlist " I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, ... see all copies from £6.82! new only from £21.35!
4	A feast of French and Saunders more books like this by Dawn French add to wishlist A compilation of comedy sketches from the French and Saunders team. The material is drawn from the "Comic Strip Presents" series, the sitcom "Girls on Top" and three series of their BBC comedy show. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £10.24! \| first editions
5	Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 more books like this by Jean E Howard add to wishlist Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which urban social relations are ... see all copies from £15.48! new only from £15.48!
6	Oxford World's Classics more books like this by Thomas Dekker, Professor George Chapman, Professor John Marston add to wishlist Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The ... see all copies from £5.05! new only from £10.31!
7	Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance more books like this by Northrop Frye add to wishlist Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances-- Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career. see all copies from £2.24! new only from £18.00! \| first editions
8	She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies more books like this by Henry Fielding, David Garrick, George Colman add to wishlist The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.49!
9	Style: Acting in High Comedy more books like this by Maria Aitken (Composer) add to wishlist A practical guide to developing fully-realized characters in high comedy. There are chapters on high comedy, naturalism and energy, repartee and irony, character and what is style. see all copies from £4.66! new only from £8.92! \| first editions
10	Acting in Restoration Comedy more books like this by Simon Callow, Maria Aitken (Editor) add to wishlist Using the Restoration comedy, "The Recluse" as a guide, Simon Callow discusses the techniques of acting in Restoration theatre. The book is based on the BBC Master Class series. see all copies from £8.92! new only from £9.61!
11	The Golden girls more books like this by Susan Harris add to wishlist A book which brings together 13 scripts from Channel 4's "Golden Girls" comedy series. It also contains profiles of the stars and a section on the making of the show, illustrated with photographs. see all copies from £1.24!
12	The Comedies of William Shakespeare more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In that same place thou hast appointed me, To-morrow truly will I meet with thee. Lys. Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena. Enter Helena. Her. God-speed fair ... see all copies from £8.09! new only from £16.62! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies more books like this by Penny Gay add to wishlist Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even ... see all copies from £7.13! new only from £7.13!
14 view cover	The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama: Concise Edition more books like this by J Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa Von Sneidern (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £25.52! new only from £38.61!
15 view cover	Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy more books like this by Scott McMillin (Editor) add to wishlist This is a new edition of this work, including the five plays of the first edition, "The Country Wife", "The Man of Mode", "The Way of the World", The Conscious Lovers" and "The School for Scandal", as well as "The Rover" by Aphra Behn. The book underlines the relationship between theatre and society in the plays. The criticism section has been ... see all copies from £7.24! new only from £8.94! \| first editions
16 view cover	Four Renaissance Comedies more books like this by Robert Shaughnessy add to wishlist This anthology of four Elizabethan and Jacobean comedies (George Peele's "The Old Wives Tale", Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist", Philip Massinger's "A New Way to Pay Old Debts", and Thomas Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday") offers fully modernized and annotated texts and demonstrates the range and variety of English Renaissance comedy. The general ... see all copies from £3.04! new only from £3.04! \| first editions
17 view cover	Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century English Drama more books like this by J Douglas Canfield add to wishlist see all copies from £19.15! new only from £49.06!
18 view cover	Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy more books like this by Jennifer Panek add to wishlist The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively ... see all copies from £20.86! new only from £26.16! \| first editions
19 view cover	London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies more books like this by Dion Boucicault, Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton add to wishlist Dion Boucicault: London Assurance W. S. Gilbert: Engaged Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Money Henry James: The High Bid Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, ... see all copies from £6.00! new only from £6.97!
20	Richard Steele more books like this by Sir Richard Steele add to wishlist see all copies from £3.97! new only from £16.57!
21	The growth and structure of Elizabethan comedy more books like this by M. C. Bradbrook add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! first editions
22	George Meredith and English comedy more books like this by V. S. Pritchett add to wishlist see all copies from £4.14! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Evolution of Shakespeare's Comedy: A Study in Dramatic Perspective more books like this by Larry S Champion add to wishlist see all copies from £5.60! new only from £19.91! \| first editions
24 view cover	Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy: The Minor, the Nabob, the Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own Mind more books like this by Samuel Foote, George Taylor (Editor), Martin Banham (Editor) add to wishlist For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by Murphy. All, apart from the last, are two- or three-act farces, the main popular fare of ... see all copies from £11.91! new only from £14.40! \| first editions
25 view cover	Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide more books like this by Don Lee Fred Nilsen add to wishlist British writers of the 20th century have used humour in various ways throughout their works. Included in this reference on British 20th century humour are authors ranging from Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, George Bernard Shaw, W. Somerset Maughm and Alfred Hitchcock. see all copies from £36.73! new only from £36.73! \| first editions

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