Types of Farce-comedyRobert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads |
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AEACUS AESCHYLUS AGATHA POSKET ALGERNON ANGELA Aristophanes BACCHUS BAPTISTA BEATIE BIANCA BIONDELLO BLOND brother BULLAMY Bunbury BUNTHORNE CATHERINE CECILY CHARLOTTE CHASUBLE CHORUS Colonel Lukyn comedy CYLINDRUS daughter dear doctor door Enter Ernest EROTIUM EURIPIDES Exeunt Exit farce-comedy father fellow gentlemen GÉRONTE girl give GROSVENOR GRUMIO GWENDOLEN hand hath hear heart HERCULES HORTENSIO husband ISIDORE JACK JANE Kate KATHARINA koash LADY BRACKNELL LÉANDRE LÉONARD LOCKIT look lord LUCAS LUCENTIO LUCINDE LUCY LUGG MACHEATH madam Maître Adam married MARTINE master MENAECHMUS EPIDAMNUM MENAECHMUS SOSICLES MERRIMAN MESSENIO MESSITER MISS PRISM mistress never PATIENCE PEACHUM PENICULUS PETRUCHIO Plautus play POLLY POPHAM pray robe SAPHIR SCENE SEMICHORUS SERVANT SGANARELLE Signior SIMON speak sure tell thank thee there's thing thou TRANIO VALE VALÈRE VINCENTIO wench What's wife woman WORMINGTON WYKE XANTHIAS young
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Page 234 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance: commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 234 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord...
Page 517 - Well, I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that. I can produce the hand-bag at any moment. It is in my dressing-room at home. I really think that should satisfy you, Lady Bracknell. LADY BRACKNELL Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter — a girl brought up with the utmost care — to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
Page 563 - Everyone looks up. CECILY. Uncle Jack seems strangely agitated. CHASUBLE. Your guardian has a very emotional nature. LADY BRACKNELL. This noise is extremely unpleasant. It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Page 511 - Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you. [JACK looks at her in amazement.] We live, as I hope you know, Mr Worthing, in an age of ideals. The fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provincial pulpits, I am told ; and my ideal has always been to love some one of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew...
Page 281 - For you must allow, that in this kind of Drama, 'tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about. — So — you Rabble there — run and cry a Reprieve — let the Prisoner be brought back to his Wives in Triumph. Play. All this we must do, to comply with the Taste of the Town.
Page 300 - Oh, ponder well! be not severe; So save a wretched Wife! For on the Rope that hangs my Dear Depends poor Polly's Life.
Page 291 - Look ye, wife. A handsome wench in our way of business is as profitable as at the bar of a Temple coffee-house, who looks upon it as her livelihood to grant every liberty but one. You see I would indulge the girl as far as prudently we can — in any thing but marriage! After that, my dear, how shall we be safe? Are we not then in her husband's power? For a husband hath the absolute power over all a wife's secrets but her own.
Page 360 - Take of these elements all that is fusible, Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible, Set them to simmer and take off the scum, And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum ! CHORUS Yes!
Page 513 - I am quite ready to enter your name, should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smoke? JACK. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.