From Mother and Daughter : Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. by Roches, Madeleine

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Eroticism and death in theatre and performance / edited by Karoline Gritzner.

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction by Karoline Gritzner; 1 Some ErosThanatos interfaces in Attic Tragedy by David Rudkin; 2 Dying for love: the tragicomedy of Shakespeare's Cleopatra by Robert Wilcher; 3 Desire and destruction in the drama of Georg Bchner by Karoline Gritzner; 4 Labyrinths of the taboo: theatrical journeys of eroticism and death in Parisian culture by Richard J. …”
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A companion to Restoration drama / edited by Susan J. Owen.

Table of Contents: “…Kinds of Drama: Heroic drama and tragicomedy / Derek Hughes -- Restoration comedy / J. …”

Harald Metzkes / by Reiner E. Moritz.

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Professional playwrights : Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome / Ira Clark. by Clark, Ira

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Caroline Professionals; The Profession; A Perspective on the Professionals; A Sociopolitical Context; A Social and Family Context; Socialization; 2 Massinger's Tragicomedy of Reformation; The Disaffections of Massinger's Privileged Patrons; Social and Political Accommodation; The Art of Redemptive Conversion; Reflection and Reciprocity in THE PICTURE; 3 Ford's Tragedy of Ritual Suffering; The Gentility of John Ford; Political and Social Resignation; Ceremonial Style; Ritual Roles in THE BROKEN HEART.…”
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Adapted brains and imaginary worlds : cognitive science and the literature of the Renaissance / Donald Beecher. by Beecher, Donald

Table of Contents: “…. ; 9 Laughter's Shortfall: The Aesthetics of Renaissance Tragicomedy, The Witch of Edmonton and The History of James the Fourth; 10 Cognition, Conversion, and the Patterns of Religious Experience: Francesco Petrarch's Familiar Letters, IV. 1; 11 Folk Psychology and Theory of Mind: John Marston's The Fawn; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.…”
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The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists / edited by Ton Hoenselaars.

Table of Contents: “…Howard -- George Chapman's learned drama / Paul Franssen -- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's tragicomedy as musical melodrama / Catherine Henze -- Thomas Middleton and the early modern theatre / Michelle O'Callaghan -- John Webster: collaboration and solitude / Robert Henke -- John Ford: suffering and silence in Perkin Warbeck and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore / Lisa Hopkins -- Philip Massinger: drama, reputation, and the dynamics of social history / Rui Carvalho Homem -- Richard Brome and the idea of a Caroline theatre / Heather Hirschfeld -- Troublesome histories: performance and early modern drama / Elizabeth Schafer.…”

Drama and discussion / edited by Stanley A. Clayes. by Clayes, Stanley A., 1922-

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The Jews. by Wijnberg, Nachoem

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Drama, poetry and music in Late-Renaissance Italy the life and works of Leonora Bernardi.

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The Crane'S Walk : Plato, Pluralism, And The Inconstancy Of Truth.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understandings of Plato and a Feature of Truth-Seeking Thought -- PART I: IDEAS OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE -- INTRODUCTORY: Internal and External Connections -- IDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else) -- IDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions -- IDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric -- IDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages -- IDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth -- IDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality -- IDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought -- IDEA 8 Mixture and Purity -- PART II: TRUTH AND LOVE -- CHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview -- CHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love -- CHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct -- CONCLUSION: The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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The challenges of Ivan Illich : a collective reflection / edited by Lee Hoinacki and Carl Mitcham.

Table of Contents: “…Burkart -- Don Quixote in the contemporary global tragicomedy / Alastair Hulbert -- Energy and the mystery of iniquity / Jean Robert -- Detour and sacrifice : Ivan Illich and René Girard / Jean-Piere Dupuy -- Ivan Illich's break with the past / Pieter Tijmes -- The quest for past somatics / Barbara Duden -- The cultivation of conspiracy / Ivan Illich.…”
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A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell / edited by Edward Jones.

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 / Neil Harris -- Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest / Karen L. …”
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Trash Animals : How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species / Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, editors ; foreword by Randy Malamud.

Table of Contents: “…Canadas : from conservation success to flying carp / Bernard Quetchenbach ; The Bard's bird; or, The slings and arrows of avicultural hegemony : a tragicomedy in five acts / Charles Mitchell ; Fly-fishing for carp as a deeper aesthetics / Phillip David Johnson II -- The urban trash animal. …”
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Jews and humor / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- One clove away from a pomander ball : the subversive tradition of Jewish female comedians / Joyce Antler -- Heckling the divine : Woody Allen, the Book of Job, and Jewish theology after the Holocaust / Jason Kalman -- Tragicomedy and zikkaron in Mel Brooks's "To be or not to be" / Joan Latchaw and David Peterson -- "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" : the musical humor of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in historical and geographical perspective / Theodore Albrecht -- The new Jewish blackface : African American tropes in contemporary Jewish humor / David Gillota.…”
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The whole art of the stage / written in French by the command of Cardinal Richelieu by Monsieur Hédelin, Abbot of Aubignac, and now made English. by Aubignac, François-Hédelin, abbé d', 1604-1676

Shakespeare's comic commonwealths / Camille Wells Slights. by Slights, Camille Wells

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Reconsidering Boccaccio : medieval contexts and global intertexts / edited by Olivia Holmes and Dana E. Stewart.

Table of Contents: “…Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau "Barat et Haimet" and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6; 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: La Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Boccaccio's Fiammetta; 15. …”
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Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth. by Rabey, David Ian

Table of Contents: “…'; CHAPTER 1 FAIRY TALES OF HARD MEN: CONTEXTUALIZING BUTTERWORTH -- THEMES, GENRES, STYLES, CRISES AND SETTINGS; Tragicomedy and tragedy; The Royal Court Theatre and an English sense of tragedy; Openings: Definitely indefinite; Laughter, and beyond: The devil in the details; Festive tragedy; Interlude: A sense of entitlement; Hardmen and rogue males.…”
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George Cukor : Hollywood master / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- 1. Cukor's tragicomedies of marriage : Dinner at Eight, No More Ladies, The Women, and The Marrying Kind / Maureen Turim -- 2. …”
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