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7 best books like The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais): The Beggar's Opera, Morphology of the Folktale, Theory of Prose, The Comedies, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, The Rope and Other Plays, Tarantula

The Beggar's Opera
AuthorJohn Gay
ISBN0140432205
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013

I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
Morphology of the Folktale
AuthorVladimir Propp
ISBN0292783760
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century. -- Alan Dundes. Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists...
Theory of Prose
AuthorVictor Shklovsky
ISBN0916583643
Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English...
The Comedies
AuthorTerence
Terence Theatre complete

Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.

His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.

This edition is the collection of...
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
AuthorMarshall McLuhan
ISBN1584230509
This is the devastating book which first established Marshall McLuhan's reputation as the foremost (and the wittiest) critic of modern mass communications.The Mechanical Bride is vintage McLuhan -- so aptly illustrated by dozens of examples from ads, comic strips, columnists, etc., that those...
The Rope and Other Plays
AuthorPlautus
ISBN0140441360
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters...
Tarantula
AuthorBob Dylan
ISBN0743230418
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.

Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection...
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