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Dion Boucicault

Author : Deirdre McFeely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378257
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Dion Boucicault written by Deirdre McFeely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deirdre McFeely presents the first book-length critical study of Dion Boucicault, placing his Irish plays in the context of his overall career. The book undertakes a detailed examination of the reception of the plays in the New York-London-Dublin theatre triangle which Boucicault inhabited. Interpreting theatre history as a sociocultural phenomenon that closely approximates social history, McFeely examines the different social and political worlds in which the plays were produced, demonstrating that the complex politics of reception of the plays cannot be separated from the social and political implications of colonialism at that time. The study argues for a shift in focus from the politics of the plays, and their author, to the politics of the auditorium and the press, or the politics of reception. It is within that complex and shifting field of stage, theatre and public media that Boucicault's performance as playwright, actor and publicist is interpreted.

5 November 1866: The Story of Henry Irving and Dion Boucicault’s Hunted Down, or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh

Author : Maria Serena Marchesi
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
ISBN 13 : 8896419824
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book 5 November 1866: The Story of Henry Irving and Dion Boucicault’s Hunted Down, or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh written by Maria Serena Marchesi and published by Skenè. Texts and Studies. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the awakening of critical interest in recent years, Victorian theatre before Wilde and Shaw is still a virtually undiscovered country. The world of Victorian theatres, with their complicated personal interconnections and astonishing feats of professionalism, and Victorian drama itself, often skillfully written and controversial, are worth investigating. Henry Irving, the icon and later the bogeyman of a whole theatrical era, has been the object of several scholarly works and essays, inevitably focusing on his Lyceum years. What was Irving before the Lyceum? Or, in other words, how did Irving become Irving? The present book reconstructs the event that made Irving famous overnight and, as it were, made the Lyceum years possible: the London première of Dion Boucicault’s Hunted Down, or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh. It investigates the circumstances of the composition of the play and of its first London production, also presenting the first edition of the text of Boucicault’s play in 150 years. The reconstruction presents twenty-first-century readers with a strange world of irascible playwrights, all-powerful stage managers, long-forgotten Pre-Raphaelite beauties and humble theatre folk in which the young Irving moved, a world whose traces remained visible and whose influence remained palpable in the years of Irving’s later fame.

Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J

Author : David C. Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J written by David C. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dion Boucicault

Author : Richard Fawkes
Publisher : London : Quartet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dion Boucicault written by Richard Fawkes and published by London : Quartet Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New England Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bay State Monthly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Bay State Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Comic Irishman

Author : Maureen Waters
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873957663
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Comic Irishman written by Maureen Waters and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Irishman makes heretofore unacknowledged distinctions among different types of comic Irishmen and convincingly casts away the stereotyped version of the stage Irishman. It shows how the Irish comic character--whether a blundering fool or a lazy, fun-loving fellow--evolved into a glib and witty rogue. The book is a critical study of modern Irish fiction and drama. The first part provides an analysis of the various Irish comic figures which were popular in the nineteenth century. These are discussed within a social and historic framework because they were to a large extent shaped by the erosion of Gaelic culture under the impact of English government. In the process of shifting from one cultural nexus to another, the Irishman came to be regarded as highly inferior to his English counterpart, yet amusing because of his difficulty with the English language and his rebellious, unpredictable behavior. The second part of the book discusses the writings of such twentieth-century authors as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, and Flann O'Brien, who concentrated on the analysis of the stage Irishman. Some brilliantly exploited the comic tradition, while other used satire to explode what they perceived as a debasing myth.

The New York Times Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault

Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813206172
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault written by Dion Boucicault and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of Boucicault's work in this volume stresses his consummate craft as a writer for the theatre in the age of actor-managers and melodrama. It also reminds us of that Irish verve, charm and adroitness which made him the best playwright of his generation in England and America as well as Ireland. Arguably the father of both the Irish and American drama, his characteristic plotting and taste for sensation suggest that another of his heirs was the early movie industry.

Sport in Australian Drama

Author : Richard Fotheringham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521401562
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Australian Drama written by Richard Fotheringham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.

Irish Theater in America

Author : John P. Harrington
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Irish Theater in America written by John P. Harrington and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences. However, Irish theater as represented on the American stage is a selective version of the national drama, and the underlying causes for Irish dramatic success in America illuminate the cultural state of both countries at specific historical moments. Irish Theater in America is the first book devoted entirely to the long history of this transatlantic exchange. Born out of the conference of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora project, this collection gathers together leading American and Irish scholars, in addition to established theater critics. Contributors explore the history of Irish theater in America from Harrigan and Hart, through some of the greatest and most disappointing Irish tours of America, to the most contemporary productions of senior Irish playwrights such as Brian Friel and younger writers such as Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. Covering the complexity of the relationship between Irish theater and the United States, this volume goes beyond the expected analysis of plays to include examinations of company dynamics, analysis of audience reception, and reviews of production history of individual works. Contents include: Mick Moloney, “Harrigan, Hart, and Braham: Irish-America and the Birth of the American Musical” Nicholas Grene, “Faith Healer in New York and Dublin” Lucy McDiarmid, “The Abbey, Its ‘Helpers,’ and the Field of Cultural Production in 1913” Christina Hunt Mahony, “’The Irish Play’: Beyond the Generic”

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520203607
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we two have been right together in the same house half the time for a year & a half, & yet have never had a cross word, or a lover's 'tiff,' or a pouting spell, or a misunderstanding, or the faintest shadow of a jealous suspicion. Now isn't that absolutely wonderful? Could I have had such an experience with any other girl on earth? I am perfectly certain I could not. . . . We are to be married on Feb. 2d." So begins Volume 4 of the letters, with Samuel Clemens anticipating his wedding to Olivia L. Langdon. The 338 letters in this volume document the first two years of a loving marriage that would last more than thirty years. They recount, in Clemens's own inimitable voice, a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife. At the beginning of 1870, fresh from the success of The Innocents Abroad, Clemens is on "the long agony" of a lecture tour and planning to settle in Buffalo as editor of the Express. By the end of 1871, he has moved to Hartford and is again on tour, anticipating the publication of Roughing It and the birth of his second child. The intervening letters show Clemens bursting with literary ideas, business schemes, and inventions, and they show him erupting with frustration, anger, and grief, but more often with dazzling humor and surprising self-revelation. In addition to Roughing It, Clemens wrote some enduringly popular short pieces during this period, but he saved some of his best writing for private letters, many of which are published here for the first time.

Vanity Fair

Author : William Allan Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanity Fair written by William Allan Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wilde's Women

Author : Eleanor Fitzsimons
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468313266
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Wilde's Women written by Eleanor Fitzsimons and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively debut biography of the flamboyant Irish writer . . . focusing on the women who loved and supported him” (Kirkus Reviews). In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly, who, like Wilde, loved fast cars, cocaine, and foreign women. Fresh, revealing, and entertaining, full of fascinating detail and anecdotes, Wilde’s Women relates the untold story of how a beloved writer and libertine played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women, and how they supported him in the midst of a Victorian society in the process of changing forever. “Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr . . . provide[s] a potted biography of the multitalented writer and gay icon . . . highly enjoyable.” —The Washington Post “Fitzsimons brilliantly calls attention to the progressive ideas and beliefs which drew the most daring and interesting women of the time to his side. The depth and painstaking care of Fitzsimons’ research is a fitting tribute to Wilde’s fascinating life and exquisite writing—and really, what better compliment is there than that?” —High Voltage

The Publishers' Trade List Annual

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1982 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue

Author : Shellard Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472532
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Harold Hobson: The Complete Catalogue written by Shellard Dominic Shellard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on Harold Hobson's theatre criticism

The Invention of Murder

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024889
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.