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Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book English Plays Prior to 1800, Theatrical Literature and Dramatic Criticism written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book English Plays Prior to 1800 written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521079341
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Peter Happe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871138
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book English Drama Before Shakespeare written by Peter Happe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521472043
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521650682
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of British Theatre written by Jane Milling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Columbia University. Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book List of Books Chiefly on the Drama and Literary Criticism written by Columbia University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079922
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher : London : Maggs Bros Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Maggs Catalogues 1918-1968 written by Maggs Bros and published by London : Maggs Bros Limited. This book was released on 1969 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901738
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book American Drama of the Twentieth Century written by Gerald M. Berkowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author : Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770484981
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama written by Jeffrey N. Cox and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.
Author : Yale University. Graduate School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue ... written by Yale University. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yale University. Graduate School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
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Download or read book Courses of Instruction written by Yale University. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1174 pages
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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lagretta Lenker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313000573
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw written by Lagretta Lenker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by their contemporaries? This book considers these and similar questions. It examines the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions, considering each in terms of the existing power structures of society. These two dramatists draw on themes of incest, daughter sacrifice, role playing, education, and androgyny to create both active and passive daughters. The daughters literally represent a challenge to the patriarchy and metaphorically extend that challenge to such institutions as church and state. The volume argues that the father-daughter relationship was the ideal dramatic vehicle for Shakespeare and Shaw to advance their social and political agendas. By exploring larger issues through the father-daughter relationship, both playwrights were able to avoid the watchful eyes of censors and comment on such topics as the divine right of kings, filial bonds of obedience, and even regicide.
Author : T. Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589480
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Performing Century written by T. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794305
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre written by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.
