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The Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1554811635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of “false scholarship.” This edition includes the text of the play itself and the text of the extraordinary notes (by Fielding’s pseudonym “H. Scriblerus Secundus”), appearing in facing page layout; extensive explanatory notes for the modern reader appear at the bottom of the page. Also included are a substantial introduction and a wide range of background materials that set the work in the context of its time. These contextual materials include contemporary reviews, excerpts from the plays that Fielding’s parody most frequently targeted, and selections from works that provided inspiration for The Tragedy of Tragedies—from contemporary versions of the “Tom Thumb” folktale to satirical writing by authors such as Alexander Pope, John Gay, and George Villiers.
Tom Thumb and the Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES OR THE LI
Author: Henry 1707-1754 Fielding
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781371166564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Tragedy of Tragedies
The Tragic Fall
Author: Raymond R. MacCurdy
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 197 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Tragedy of Tragedies Or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780243646685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: H. Scriblerus Secundus
Publisher:
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781429762915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES OR THE LI
Author: Henry 1707-1754 Fielding
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781371165253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Tragedy of Tragedies; Or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781230352237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... and at the end all the characters fall into line and slaughter one another. In the Tom Thumb of 1730 the fatalities had included the Ghost of Gaffer Thumb, killed by Grizzle, but in the final version this amusing bit of action was omitted. Since the days of Elizabeth the English had taken vast delight in violent death and the uproar of stage battles. In fact, Fielding's ending might have been suggested by the series of deaths catalogued by the Ghost at the close of The Spanish Tragedy. In the tragedy of the heroic type a large proportion of the Dramatis Personae died on stage1; in Cleomenes, which Fielding mentions in his last foot-note as having an especially "charming and bloody catastrophe," Dryden puts to death five characters within the narrow limits of three pages. As for stage battles, they were innumerable; in the heroic plays armies are always marching and countermarching, and the drums and trumpets are seldom quiet for long. The gusto with which stage directions for battles were put into practice may be judged from Addison's comment in number 42 of The Spectator-- "I should likewise be glad if we imitated the French in banishing from our stage the noise of drums, trumpets, and huzzas, which is sometimes so great that when there is a battle in the Haymarket theatre, one may hear it as far as Charing Cross.' The characters of the heroic play are so easily reduced to formulas that Fielding had little trouble in collecting a sort of heroic family album. From the first the intention of the playwrights had been, not to represent real life, but to construct models embodying heroic ideas of love, honor, jealousy, and so forth. i The hero and heroine, however, frequently survived, and furnished a happy ending. These models were...
