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George Meredith An Essay on Comedy

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Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters.[1] His mother died when he [more]

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J. D. Beresford The Jervaise Comedy

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John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 1 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his [more]

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SAMUEL LOVER Stories of Comedy

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Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868) was an Anglo-Irish[1] songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter [more]

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Rose Macaulay A Prophetic Comedy

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Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer. She published [more]

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May Sinclair The Creators A Comedy

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.[1] She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. May Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915–67), in The Egoist, April 1918. [more]

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G.K. Chesterton Magic A Fantastic Comedy

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was [more]

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George Meredith An Essay on Comedy

And the Uses of the Comic Spirit

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George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the [more]

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Various . Stories of Comedy

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Barny O'Reirdon was a fisherman of Kinsale, and a heartier fellow never hauled a net nor cast a line into deep water: indeed Barny, independently of being a merry boy among his companions, a lover of good fun and good whiskey, was looked up to, rather, by his brother fishermen, as an intelligent fellow, and few boats brought more fish to market than Barny O'Reirdon's; his opinion on certain points in the craft was considered law, and in short, in his own little community, Barny was what is commonly called a leading man. [more]

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Richard Brinsley The Rivals A Comedy

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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). He was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. [more]

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May Sinclair The Creators A Comedy

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May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a [more]

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