Ergebnis für "English Edition" in Comedy & Humor

Nach fast vier Jahrzehnten Comedy-Tour geht Mittermeier dahin, wo er noch nie gewesen ist: in die Zukunft. Solang es die noch gibt! Aber wie hinkommen? In den 80ern ist man da noch mit dem Auto hingefahren. Typisch. Doch wie fährt man heute hin? Sind Zeitreisen überhaupt möglich? Yep, er hat’s gemacht! Die Lösung lag im Keller: Mittermeiers Uropa war nämlich Erfinder, so eine Art bayerischer Oppenheimer. Und der hat vor über hundert Jahren eine Zeitmaschine gebaut. Das Ding stand dann jahrzehntelang bei den Großeltern im Keller und hat nicht funktioniert.

Napoleon has England on edge. For the cunning and conniving Becky Sharp, it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and improve her lowly station. Her friend Amelia Sedley, a blue-blood pawn, affords Becky entrée into the moneyed class. As the guileless Amelia pines for a rakish soldier, the ruthless Becky climbs upward, setting the stage for a domestic battlefield of greed, ambition, deception, and dizzying reversals of love and fortune.

There were times when Bertie Wooster, the fictional narrator of these stories, was thought of as being at least a trifle feather-brained. However, he had a valet who seemed to know everything about everything. These are among more than 300 short stories written by a man who began a short-lived career in banking after his college days. However, it didn’t take long for P. G. Wodehouse to decide he didn’t like that kind of job, and he began writing in whatever spare time he had.

A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts...

Sir John Falstaff has very little money upon his arrival in Windsor, and sets out to court two wealthy wives in the hopes of fattening his coin purse. The two clever wives—Mistress Page and Mistress Ford—discover Falstaff’s plot, but instead of rejecting him, set out to have some fun at...

The novel that launched Dickens as an international celebrity, The Pickwick Papers is a loose collection of Samuel Pickwick’s adventures with his friends, and became a serialisation phenomenon upon its release. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club or more commonly known as The Pickwick...

...if you prick us do we not bleed? - Shylock. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. The complete play in five acts. The beautiful Portia has many suitors within Venetian society, among them the young nobleman Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune. Desperate to win Portia’s heart...

"All the world's a stage." —Jaques The complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production. A full-cast performance featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Michell, Max Adrian, Stanley Holloway and Others As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a...

Two couples—Benedick and Beatrice, and Hero and Claudio—must overcome deception, gossip, and, occasionally, their own misplaced pride if their love is to persevere. Aided by military commander Don Pedro and impeded by his brother Don John, the friends go to great lengths in the pursuit of...

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday - Petruchio A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts...

He after honor hunts, I after love. He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love. Proteus - Act I, Scene I A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in four acts...