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Author : James Fullarton Arnott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900 written by James Fullarton Arnott and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780521129473
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)
Download or read book English Drama, 1900-1930 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577689
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 1 written by Lisa Zunshine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.
Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166926
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Writing the History of the British Stage written by Richard Schoch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.
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.
Author : James Woodfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389433
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914 written by James Woodfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular stylings of Irving and Beerbohm Tree to the masking and statuesque styles of Isadora Duncan and the inner realism of Stanislavsky. This book traces the activities of the leading figures in the English theatre, notably William Archer who introduced Ibsen to this country and who became one of the main promoters of the idea of a National Theatre. Other personalities discussed include Harley Granville Barker, particularly his association with Shaw at the Court Theatre and his part in campaigns against censorship and for changes in the staging of Shakespeare, and Edward Gordon Craig, whose rebellion against the Victorian theatre took and anti-realist direction. This is a stimulating account of the background to the modern English theatre which can only increase appreciation of its standard and variety.
Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199219818
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408171
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770 written by Ashley Marshall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works but to recover the satiric milieu—to resituate the masterpieces amid the hundreds of other works alongside which they were originally written and read. The long eighteenth century is generally hailed as the great age of satire, and as such, it has received much critical attention. However, scholars have focused almost exclusively on a small number of canonical works, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad, and have not looked for continuity over time. Marshall revises the standard account of eighteenth-century satire, revealing it to be messy, confused, and discontinuous, exhibiting radical and rapid changes over time. The true history of satire in its great age is not a history at all. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040249183
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 2 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.
Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545808
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Fair Ophelia written by Peter Raby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable life and career of Harriet Smithson Berlioz, a talented actress who became a symbol of the Romantic spirit.
Author : Jane Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039864
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840 written by Jane Moody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Author : Arthur Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300096615
Total Pages : 1543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Payne Collier written by Arthur Freeman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 1543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger's long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.
Author : Elaine Hadley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724036
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Melodramatic Tactics written by Elaine Hadley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.
Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008238
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre written by Michael R. Booth and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of the prefaces from the author's "English plays of the nineteenth century" (5 vols. ; London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969-1976) provides an introduction to the critical interpretations of most genres of English drama.
Author : William J. Burling
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638118
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre written by William J. Burling and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the actor who starred in the popular television series, Family Ties, as well as in a number of motion pictures and who recently announced that he has Parkinson's disease.
Author : David Worrall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534900
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Theatric Revolution written by David Worrall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts. Theatric Revolution redresses the balance by considering the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with the freedom of expression. Looking beyond the Royal theatres at Covent Garden and Drury Lane which have dominated most recent accounts of the period, this book examines the day-to-day workings of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and shows that radicalized groups of individuals continuously sought ways to evade the suppression of both playhouses and dramatic texts. Incorporating a wealth of new research, David Worrall reveals the centrality of theatre within busy networks of print culture, politics of all casts, elite and popular cultures, and metropolitan and provincial audiences. Ranging from the drawing room of Queen Caroline's private theatrical to the song-and-supper dens of Soho and radical free and easies, Theatric Revolution deals with the complex vitality of Romantic theatrical culture, and its intense politicization at all levels. This fascinating new study will be of great value to cultural historians, as well as to literary and theatre scholars.
Author : Peggy Keeran
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810887967
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century written by Peggy Keeran and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that different search strategies are required to conduct research into primary and secondary source material across the era. Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century addresses these unique challenges. It examines how the following all contribute to the richness of literary research for this era: book and periodical publishing; a growing literate society; dissemination of literature through salons, private societies, and coffee houses; the growing importance of book reviews; the explosion of publishing; and the burgeoning of primary source material available through new publishing and digital initiatives in the 21st century. This volume explores primary and secondary resources, including general literary research guides; union library catalogs; print and online bibliographies; scholarly journals; manuscripts and archives; 18th-century books, newspapers, and periodicals; contemporary reception; and electronic texts and journals, as well as Web resources. Each chapter addresses the research methods and tools best used to extract relevant information and compares and evaluates sources, making this book an invaluable guide to any literary scholar and student of the British eighteenth century.
