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Setting. The 1880s. Werle's house and later Hjalmar Ekdal's studio in Christiania, Norway. The Wild Duck (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It explores the complexities of truth and illusion through the story of a family torn apart by secrets and the intrusion of an idealistic outsider.
Tragicomedy. The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with ...
Comedy of manners. In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society. [1] The satire of fashion, manners, and ...
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Fun Home was first printed in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin ( Boston, New York City) on June 8, 2006. [76] This edition appeared on the New York Times ' Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list for two weeks, covering the period from June 18 to July 1, 2006.
Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an esteemed performer of Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real figures throughout the history of England, they ...
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919. The English language premiere was at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a ...
