Ambrose Bierce described this "Earnest" playwright as "That sovereign of insufferables"
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The Importance of Being Ernest Guide - AUBREY CALDWELL MFA  Playwright's Collective), ... As Oscar Wilde stated, The Importance of Being Earnest is A Trivial ..... Critic Ambrose Bierce's stinging denunciation appeared in the March 31,. 1882 edition of the Wasp: That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar ..... Describe how this play may or may not fit the criteria associated with the genre of...
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the importance of being earnest - AP English IV  friend to whom he dedicated The Importance of Being Earnest. .... The playwright with characteristic wit and tendency towards epigrams ..... Critic Ambrose Bierce's stinging denunciation appeared in the March 31, 1882, edition of. The Wasp: That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of...
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Oscar Wilde - Wikiquote  I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. ..... I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. ..... That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. ... Ambrose Bierce in an unsigned comment from a column titled Prattle in the satirical...
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| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.  Ambrose Bierce's stinging denunciation of Oscar Wilde appeared in the March 31, ... That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of ... He portrays the controversial playwright in David Hare's The Judas Kiss, which ... to play Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest.
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The Importance of Being Earnest - South Coast Repertory  Critic Ambrose Bierce's stinging denunciation ap- peared in ... That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde ..... part of the Sundance Playwrights Festival for ten.
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Ambrose Bierce - Wikipedia  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842  circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled ... Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including the poets...
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King Richard IV - Revolvy  At one point he became the Archbishop of Canterbury, but, was eventually fired, ... than being the snivelling, slimy, reserved, intelligent, obsequious sycophant ...... who "singed the beard of the King of Spain" when he attacked the country in 1587. ..... Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare , believed written...
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The Scottsboro Puppet Show - English  He leans over the rail and wisecracks at the defense attorneys, then hops from ... Throughout the trial the defense ironically referred to him only as "Governor. ... After the geniality of the first day the courtroom setting became grim and harsh as it filled ... Judge William Washington Callahan drove through the proceedings with...
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Metroactive Books | Ambrose Bierce  Although Bierce's devastating short stories about the war between the ... In avoiding what his audience wanted to hear echoed, Bierce devoted himself to roasting .... him a barbarian whose company he, Bierce, can stand not a moment longer. ... and the Hangman's Daughter, once defined the form as "A short story padded.
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Pages Relating to Particular Works by Scott  Oct 5, 2009 ... Lucia di Lammermoor - From the opera information directory ... 'widely hailed as the writer of the worst poetry in the English language'. ... real life, refers to Bizet's operatic adaptation La jolie fille de Perth (1867), and gives a list of external links. ... It discusses how Guy Mannering inspired Cooper to an act of...
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The Greatest Literature of All Time - Oliver Goldsmith - Editor Eric  The Vicar of Wakefield is supposed to be a satire, an ever gentle one in which the ... trust of the good pastor of the title leave him at the mercy of larcenous.... more ... The man of letters Horace Walpole described Goldsmith as an "inspired idiot"...
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jeopardy/259_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SHAKESPEREAN WORDPLAY | Morose character whose first line is "A little more than kin, and less than kind" | Hamlet. right: Paul. Wrong: Value: $400.
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Insults From Shakespeare  Othello Pericles, Prince of Tyre Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet ... He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best .... What a slave art thou to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it .... Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell .... She is spread of late into a goodly bulk.
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Full text of "The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters ...  This paper is written in ridicule of some affected ladies of the period, who pretended, with ... For these reasons, I am in a very par- ticular manner her aversion. ...... and published by Jonathan Swift, Domestic Chaplain to his Excellency the Earl of Berkeley, ...... Why, I am as old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
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The Drama 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Plays of All Time  can be argued that, like squaring a circle, such ranking of literature is really a ...... the sensation at the end of The Cherry Orchard, than by saying that it sends one into .... drama, Chekhov asserted, but a comedy, in places even a farce. ...... ridicule by his comic exaggeration of serious matters, Molire insisted that he.
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William Shakespear: King Henry VI, Part 3 - The Handy Library  ... upon her back, The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will ... Ambitious York did level at thy crown, Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows. ... Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force. ..... for grief can speak no more; Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,...
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Free Flashcards about AMERICAN HISTORY - StudyStack  WHEN GIVEN COMMAND OF A UNION ARMY, THIS GENERAL, FAMED FOR HIS WHISKERS, SAID HE WAS INCOMPETENT, AMBROSE BURNSIDE.
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Othello - Shakespeare Right Now!  As though he dwelt in a fertile climate,a manured fieldplague him with flies! ... Thou art a villain! cries the old man, livid. You are a senator! retorts Iago. .... Without telling of his own part in it, Iago has reported Lord Brabantio's rousing...
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For Your Comments on 'Et tu, George?' - The New York Times  Jan 23, 2007 ... As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner  The Sound and The Fury, William Faulkner (2) .... very well be as equally horrendous to its perpertrators (and innocent bystanders i.e. ... Hamlet is a perfect play, and Bush is a perfect fool. ... Is this just more teenage cynicism or is our society come to the point where we lack...
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Ambrose Bierce News - The Ambrose Bierce Site  Pohle, author of thirty books, is currently updating his 1983 book, The Christopher .... certain events occurred that prevented me from devoting too much time to the hobby, and the .... AMBROSE BIERCE, JUNE 24, 1842 TO 1913? ...... When he defines "Birth" as "the first and direst of all disasters" you can't help feeling a pang...
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Book Review: Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Roy Morris ...  Roy Morris, Jr.'s new biography,Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Crown ... derived from another definition in The Devil's Dictionary: Alone, adj. ... Bierce's literary career began shortly after the Civil War, when he resigned from the...