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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
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- worldwide.
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Le Joueur (Paperback)
Arthur Tilley; Jean Francois Regnard
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R926
Discovery Miles 9 260
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This volume contains the French text of Jean-Francois Regnard's
1696 comic play Le Joueur, edited by Arthur Tilley and first
published in 1918. Tilley's edition draws principally from the text
of G. d'Heylli's 1876 edition of the Theatre du Regnard and adopts
modernised spelling, punctuation, and arrangement of scenes. The
text of the play is supported by an introduction, examining the
life of Regnard and the reception of Le Joueur, and notes on some
of the more difficult words and phrases that appear in the work for
which Tilley consulted several contemporary seventeenth-century
dictionaries.
Four French comedies on marriage, love, and manners. In THE WIDOW A
LA MODE, by Jean Donneau de Vise, the death of an aged husband
forces his young widow and other members of his family to scramble
quickly to save their fortunes while pretending to be overcome with
grief. WAYWARD WENCHES, by Jean-Francois Regnard, is a collection
of skits about bad girls who've gone wrong. Michel Baron's THE
ABDUCTIONS is a one-act farce about the vagaries of love in a
country setting, including cross-dressing and knock-about slapstick
shenanigans. Alain-Rene Lesage's THE SCHOOL FOR LOVERS is a comic
fantasy opera about what makes romance last--and what kills it. A
magician whisks young men and women to an enchanted isle--where
they become bored to death with love The characters in these plays
are still recognizable, even in modern settings; and this quartet
of comedies still makes us laugh. Great entertainment
Four French comedies by Jean-Francois Regnard (with Charles
Dufresny), who's considered to be the best comic playwright of his
age after Moliere. The sardonic and amusing THE TREE OF CHASTITY
has a slight plot, but the double-entendres flying rapidly right
and left keep the audience well-entertained. WAIT FOR ME UNDER THE
ELM is another farce filled with verve aplenty. THE UNFORESEEN
RETURN is a reworking of Plautus' Haunted House with a
seventeenth-century setting. THE RIDICULOUS MERCHANT is another
comedic romp. These bubbly, even obscene farces still hold up well
today, with all of the characters and their situations eminently
recognizable to modern audiences. Great dramatic fun
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Le Joueur: Les Folies Amoureuses Jean Fran�ois Regnard Lib. de
la Biblioth�que nationale, 1887
Three delightful French plays about different aspects of Love.
ZENEIDA, by Louis de Cahusac, is a fairy tale about love being
blind--but says that true love can happen anyway, regardless of
looks. It's a story filled with charm and grace. THE FOLLIES OF
LOVE, by Jean-Francois de Regnard, demonstrates how far love will
go to have its way. The heroine, who's being oppressed by her aged
tutor, Albert, goes to emotional extremes, feigning madness, to
escape his unwanted affections. THE CAT WHO TURNED INTO A WOMAN, by
Eugene Scribe, is a light-hearted comedy about a young man who
falls in love with his cat, believing that she's turned into a
woman. But the heroine just continues chasing around a ball of
twine and licking cream from her fingers. Great fun Love is
eternal, these dramas suggest, and never ceases to be interesting
and compelling (and entertaining ) to the human animal.
Jean-Francois Regnard (1655-1709) is considered by many critics to
be the best writer of comedic plays in seventeenth-century French
literature, excepting only Moliere. Regnard based many of his
pieces on classical sources, and THE TWO MCNAUGHTENS is no
exception, having been adapted from the Roman comedy, Menaechmi, by
Plautus. The dramatist chose to adapt rather than simply translate
this comedy, restaging it with a fresh British setting.
Nonetheless, the basic premise--of twins and their lovers
confounding each other in their bumbling attempts to inherit the
estate of their uncle--closely follows the original source, save
for actual names, places, and monetary denominations--and also
manages to replicate the absolute hilarity of the earlier play.
Great entertainment for a modern audience
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Le Distrait: Comedie Jean-Francois Regnard Aux depens de la
Compagnie des Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1773 Drama; Continental
European; Drama / Continental European
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Den Speelder: Blyspel. In Vyf Bedryven Jean-Francois Regnard
J.J.Vander Schueren, 1792
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ De Geveinsde Zotheid Door Liefde: Blyspel Jean-Francois
Regnard by de Erfgen. van J. Lescaille, 1710
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++++ Democritus Of De Verliefde Filosoof: Blyspel Jean-Francois
Regnard, Henrik Van Elvervelt by Izaak Duim, 1742
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ De Dobbelaar: Blyspel Jean-Francois Regnard Izaak Duim, 1736
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preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
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