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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was a playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
For thirty-two years, he was also a Member of Parliament aligned with the British Whig Party. Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries
when he died that he was buried at Westminister Abbey.
This is a farce in one act also called: "The Scheming Lieutenant".
The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number, though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years,
from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. That he fought at Marathon in 490, and at Salamis in 480 B.C. is a strongly accredited tradition, rendered almost certain by the vivid
references to both battles in his play of The Persians, which was produced in 472. But his earliest extant play was, probably, not The Persians but The Suppliant
Maidens--a mythical drama, the fame of which has been largely eclipsed by the historic interest of The Persians, and is undoubtedly the least known and least
regarded of the seven. Its topic--the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Argos, in order to escape from a forced bridal with their first-cousins,
the sons of Aegyptus--is legendary, and the lyric element predominates in the play as a whole.
THE last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war ebbed in the
early eighties, leaving behind it a dead level of apathy which lasted until life was again quickened by the high interests of the Revolution. During these grey years
the lonely country and stagnant provincial towns of Russia buried a peasantry which was enslaved by want and toil, and an educated upper class which was enslaved
by idleness and tedium. Most of the "Intellectuals," with no outlet for their energies, were content to forget their ennui in vodka and card-playing; only the
more idealistic gasped for air in the stifling atmosphere, crying out in despair against life as they saw it, and looking forward with a pathetic hope to
happiness for humanity in "two or three hundred years." It is the inevitable tragedy of their existence, and the pitiful humour of their surroundings,
that are portrayed with such insight and sympathy by Anton Tchekoff who is, perhaps, of modern writers, the dearest to the Russian people.
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 By Christopher Marlowe
This book is written in indonesian. Here is the first paragraph:
Tamburlaine the Greate. Who, from the state of a Shepheard in Scythia, by his rare and wonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mighty Monarque.
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 By Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Greate. With his impassionate furie, for the death of his Lady and Loue fair Zenocrate: his forme of exhortation and discipline to his three Sonnes,
and the manner of his owne death.
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AWAN yang kelabu mengalir dihanyutkan oleh angin yang kencang ke Utara. Segumpal bayangan yang kabur melintas di atas sebuah halaman rumah yang besar. Kemudian kembali sinar matahari memancar
seolah-olah menghanguskan tanaman yang liar di atas halaman yang luas itu.
This is the first of the series of three Comedies--'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'--produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first
of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless
policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace. In date it is the earliest play brought
out by the author in his own name and his first work of serious importance. It was acted at the Lenaean Festival, in January, 426 B.C., and gained the first prize,
Cratinus being second.
John Gay (30 June 1685 - 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728),
set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
BEGGAR. If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one
at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles's. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I
please, which is more than most Poets can say.
'The Birds' differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an
extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright, amusing dialogue,
pleasing lyrical interludes, and charming displays of brilliant stage effects and pretty dresses. Unlike other plays of the same Author, there is here
apparently no serious political MOTIF underlying the surface burlesque and buffoonery.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories By Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest
short-story writers in the history of world literature.[1] His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high
esteem by writers and critics.[2][3] Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said,
"and literature is my mistress."
GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary,
and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a
cabman's full coat, was sitting at the kitchen table on which they chopped the meat and sliced the onions. He was balancing a saucer on the five fingers of his
right hand and drinking tea out of it, and crunching sugar so loudly that it sent a shiver down Grisha's back. Aksinya Stepanovna, the old nurse, was sitting on
the dirty stool facing him, and she, too, was drinking tea. Her face was grave, though at the same time it beamed with a kind of triumph. Pelageya, the cook,
was busy at the stove, and was apparently trying to hide her face.
"La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas" was acted before the Court at Saint- Germain-en-Laye, on
December 2, 1671, and in the theatre of the Palais Royal on July 8, 1672. It was never
printed during Molière's lifetime, but for the first time only in 1682. It gives us a good
picture of the provincial thoughts, manners, and habits of those days.
At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777,
Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room
of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a
prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs.
Dudgeon's face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren
forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride.
She is an elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it except dominion and
detestation in her sordid home, and an unquestioned reputation for piety and
respectability among her neighbors, to whom drink and debauchery are still so much
more tempting than religion and rectitude, that they conceive goodness simply as selfdenial.
On the 15th June 1903, in the early forenoon, a medical student, surname Redpenny, Christian name unknown and of no importance, sits at work in a doctor's
consulting-room. He devils for the doctor by answering his letters, acting as his domestic laboratory assistant, and making himself indispensable generally,
in return for unspecified advantages involved by intimate intercourse with a leader of his profession, and amounting to an informal apprenticeship and a
temporary affiliation. Redpenny is not proud, and will do anything he is asked without reservation of his personal dignity if he is asked in a fellow-creaturely way.
He is a wide-open-eyed, ready, credulous, friendly, hasty youth, with his hair and clothes in reluctant transition from the untidy boy to the tidy doctor.
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