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Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521129367
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)
Download or read book History of English Drama, 1660-1900 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518496
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. The perfect guide for students and scholars of drama and literature, theatre professionals, and directors looking for plays for performance.
Author : P. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135794936
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book British Sources of Information written by P. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198604181
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Plays written by Michael Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for their theatre company or drama group to perform. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most significant plays - from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot - are dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. An index of characters enables the reader to locate favourite characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters - such as Iphigenia - through world drama, including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the plays included by a particular author.
Author : Maureen Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844687260
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Plays & Playwrights written by Maureen Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about plays and playwrights in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has had one of her 8 musicals produced in the West End and teaches musical theater. Covering everything from the top playwrights through the centuries to a comprehensive A-Z listing of plays from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with factboxes highlighting key or curious facts about the subject.
Author : Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109291
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book History of English Drama, 1660-1900 written by Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314179
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to Literature in English written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109314
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A History of English Drama 1660-1900 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : John Hampden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eighteenth Century Plays written by John Hampden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032653
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book British Playwrights, 1880-1956 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Use of English written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521284417
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Plays by James Robinson Planché written by James Robinson Planché and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-01-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Robinson Planché was one of the most prolific and successful of nineteenth-century playwrights. In a career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred and eighty pieces of all types, from pantomime and farce to melodrama and opera, for production at a wide range of London theatres. This book offers a representative selection of his most popular plays. It includes one melodrama - The Vampire; or The Bride of the Isles (1820), which represents the first treatment of the vampire theme on the English stage; one farce - The Garrick Fever (1839); three 'fairy' extravaganzas - Beauty and the Beast (1841), Fortunio and his Seven Gifted Servants (1843), and The Discreet Princess; or, The Three Glass Distaffs (1855); one 'classical' extravaganza - The Golden Fleece; or, Jason in Colchis and Medea in Corinth (1845); and one revue of events in contemporary London - The Camp at the Olympic (1853). The volume includes a lengthy introduction which sets the plays in the theatrical context of their time, a chronological record of Planché's life, a complete list of his plays, and a bibliography.
Author : J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189659
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Tricksters and Estates written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. The hybrid nature of these plays has long posed problems for critics, and few studies have attempted to deal with their diversity in a comprehensive way. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration, but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric. Tricksters and Estates is a truly comprehensive work, offering serious critical readings of many plays that have never before received close attention and fresh insights into more familiar works. By juxtaposing the comedies of such lesser-known playwrights as Orrery, Lacy, and Rawlins with those of more familiar figures like Behn, Wycherley, and Dryden, the author invites a greater appreciation than has previously been possible of the meaning and function of Restoration comedy. This intelligent and wide-ranging study promises is a standard work in its field.
Author : Deborah C. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009398210
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700 written by Deborah C. Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Author : Mary Waldron
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820318011
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton written by Mary Waldron and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of a circulating library. This literary biography offers the most thoroughly researched and reasoned account to date of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley's gradual exclusion from the annals of literature. Yearsley published her first volume of poetry in 1785 with the support of Hannah More and other members of the "Bluestocking" circle, who regarded her as something of a primitive savant. Soon thereafter, however, Yearsley broke with her patrons in a bitter dispute regarding the book's profits. Although condemned for ingratitude by More and her friends, Yearsley continued to publish with the support of more liberal members of the establishment. Nevertheless, the more conservative counsels prevailed as events in France from 1789 demonstrated the dangers of popular political agitation. Although Yearsley consistently rejected such activity, her perceived status tended to label her at least potentially subversive. Consequently, most commentary on her work during her later writing life and the century after her death portrayed her primarily as the ungrateful protégée of the more acceptable More, and mistakenly associated her with such avowed radicals as Mary Wollstonecraft. Although present-day Marxist and feminist theorists deserve much credit for revitalizing interest in Yearsley, says Mary Waldron, the writer has often been just as misrepresented or misunderstood by her modern champions, being celebrated for the very qualities or tendencies erroneously attributed to her by earlier readers and critics. With the publication of this broad literary-historical study, a more complete picture of Yearsley, as an individual and on her own terms, emerges.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520321871
Total Pages : 2816 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 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 2023-11-10 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 924 pages
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