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Author : Thomas Holcroft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of Thomas Holcroft written by Thomas Holcroft and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Alexandra Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1902806883
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Politics of the Pantomime written by Jill Alexandra Sullivan and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the variety and independence of pantomime in the provinces, especially Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Explores official and local censorship and the relationships between local theaters, managers, authors and audiences.
Author : Donald Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521250801
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789-1860 written by Donald Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as notional parameters the upheaval of the French Revolution and the events leading up to the Unification of Italy, this volume charts a period of political and social turbulence in Europe and its reflection in theatrical life. Apart from considering external factors like censorship and legal sanctions on theatrical activity, the volume examines the effects of prevailing operational conditions on the internal organization of companies, their repertoire, acting, stage presentation, playhouse architecture and the relationship with audiences. Also covered are technical advances in stage machinery, scenography and lighting, the changing position of the playwright and the continuing importance of various street entertainments, particularly in Italy, where dramatic theatre remained the poor relation of the operatic, and itinerant acting troupes still constituted the norm. The 460 documents, many of them illustrated, have been drawn from sources in Britain, France and Italy and have been annotated, and translated where appropriate.
Author : Stephen Leach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527592200
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Joseph Wright and the Final Farewell written by Stephen Leach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the work of the artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) within the context of his life and times. It brings to light fresh information, including evidence of the flute music that Wright played and the ‘graveyard’ genre of poetry that he read. The book argues that Wright is the author of ‘The Final Farewell: a poem written on retiring from London’ (1787). It will be of interest to all admirers of this famously retiring artist. By the same author: The Adventures and Speculations of the Ingenious Peter Perez Burdett.
Author : Henry Adelbert White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Yale Studies in English written by Henry Adelbert White and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew McIlwraith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442611642
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book More of a Man written by Andrew McIlwraith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.
Author : Steve Ward
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 152670689X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Father of the Modern Circus 'Billy Buttons' written by Steve Ward and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a larger-than-life man who changed the world of entertainment in eighteenth-century England. The world of the circus has a long and colorful history, but it was with a man named Philip Astley that the modern circus was founded. In April 1768, Astley pegged out a circular ride on the banks of the river Thames and gave performances of trick riding to a paying audience. He was an accomplished horseman, a military hero, and an instinctive showman. Above all, he was an entrepreneur who realized that people would pay good money to be entertained and to be entertained well. He created the comic character Billy Buttons, and other acts were added to his performances: clowns, rope dancers, tumblers, and strongmen. The circus, as we might recognize it today, was born. This book investigates the life and times of this veritable giant of the circus world. Standing well over six feet tall, with a stentorian voice and character to match, he was difficult to ignore. From his early days as an apprentice cabinetmaker and his military exploits in the 15th Dragoons to the trials and tribulations of establishing himself as a respected performer and his international successes in France and Ireland, this is a detailed account of the larger-than-life figure that was Philip Astley.
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350073296
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Through their powerful acting and meticulous conceptualisation of Shakespeare's characters and their worlds, they created iconic interpretations of Shakespeare's major roles that live on in our theatrical and cultural memory. This book examines the actors' long careers on the London stage, from Siddons's debut in 1782 to Kemble's retirement in 1817, encompassing Kemble's time as theatre manager, when he sought to foreground their strengths as Shakespearean performers in his productions. Over the course of more than thirty years, Siddons and Kemble appeared opposite one another in many Shakespeare plays, including King John, Henry VIII, Coriolanus and Macbeth. The actors had to negotiate two major Shakespeare scandals: the staging of Vortigern – a fake Shakespearean play – in 1796 and the Old Price Riots of 1809, during which the audience challenged Siddons's and Kemble's perceived attempts to control Shakespeare. Fiona Ritchie examines the siblings' careers, focusing on their collaborations, as well as placing Siddons's and Kemble's Shakespeare performances in the context of contemporary 18th- and 19th-century drama. The volume not only offers a detailed consideration of London theatre, but also explores the importance of provincial performance to the actors, notably in the case of Hamlet – a role in which both appeared across Britain and in Ireland.
Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399099
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Victorian Actor written by Michael Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.
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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Adaptations written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespears Adaptations written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Adaptations written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578001
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Opera written by Guy A. Marco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Author : Philip Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199541205
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Writers, Readers, and Reputations written by Philip Waller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Waller explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged, with writers promoted as stars and celebrities, advertising both products and themselves.
Author : Cambridge University Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book University Library Bulletin written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew G. Ralston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315409720
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Opening Schools and Closing Prisons written by Andrew G. Ralston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- 1 Punishment, reformation and prevention: changing attitudes to juvenile crime in mid-nineteenth century Britain -- 2 'The lamentable extent of youthful depravity': the Tron Riot of 1812 -- 3 Stirrings for change: developments in Edinburgh, 1812-1846 -- 4 'An intermediate step': the Glasgow House of Refuge, 1838-1854 -- 5 Prevention is better than cure: the Aberdeen industrial schools, 1841-1854
Author : Stephen Leach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527592189
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Adventures and Speculations of the Ingenious Peter Perez Burdett written by Stephen Leach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Perez Burdett (1733–1793) was the first person to practise aquatint engraving in Britain. He was also an ambitious map-maker, publishing a prize-winning map of Derbyshire and inspiring the creation of a series of inter-connected county maps, from Lancashire to Warwickshire. Furthermore, after his emigration to Germany, he oversaw the mapping of Baden. He is perhaps best known as the friend and artistic advisor of Joseph Wright of Derby. It is usually assumed that his influence upon Wright ceased after his emigration to Germany in 1774. This book presents evidence that suggests that this may not have been the case. In the course of his adventurous life, Burdett crossed paths with many of the luminaries of the Enlightenment, including Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and the Holy Roman Emperor, to name but a few. This book is his first biography. By the same author: Joseph Wright and the Final Farewell.
