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Harlequin Britain

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879104
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Britain written by John O'Brien and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-07-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime—a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar figure of the harlequin at its center—was a theatrical experience of unprecedented accessibility. The immediate popularity of this new genre drew theater apprentices to the cities to learn the new style, and pantomime became the subject of lively debate within British society. Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding bitterly opposed the intrusion into legitimate literary culture of what they regarded as fairground amusements that appealed to sensation and passion over reason and judgment. In Harlequin Britain, literary scholar John O'Brien examines this new form of entertainment and the effect it had on British culture. Why did pantomime become so popular so quickly? Why was it perceived as culturally threatening and socially destabilizing? O’Brien finds that pantomime’s socially subversive commentary cut through the dampened spirit of debate created by Robert Walpole's one-party rule. At the same time, pantomime appealed to the abstracted taste of the mass audience. Its extraordinary popularity underscores the continuing centrality of live performance in a culture that is most typically seen as having shifted its attention to the written text—in particular, to the novel. Written in a lively style rich with anecdotes, Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genres and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainment culture.

Harlequin Empire

Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315480
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Empire written by David Worrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.

England Re-Oriented

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851576
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book England Re-Oriented written by Humberto Garcia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Shaykh I'tesamuddin, Abu Talib Khan, Abul Hassan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, and Lutfullah Khan found in their conviviality with Englishwomen and men a strategy for inhabiting a critical agency that appropriated various media to make Europe commensurate with Asia. Drama, dance, masquerades, visual art, museum exhibits, music, postal letters, and newsprint inspired these genteel men to recalibrate Persianate ways of behaving and knowing. Their cosmopolitanisms offer a unique window on an enchanted third space between empires in which Europe was peripheral to Islamic Indo-Eurasia. Encrypted in their mediated homosocial intimacies is a queer history of orientalist mimic men under the spell of a powerful Persian manhood.

Harlequin Valentine (Second Edition)

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 150670087X
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Valentine (Second Edition) written by Neil Gaiman and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Commedia dell'arte has been beautifully redesigned for a new hardbound edition! In this timeless tale of a buffoonish Harlequin's hopeless love for the sensible Columbine, the clown impulsively gives his heart to his ladylove, only to see it dragged obliviously about town . . . but a charming surprise awaits the pair before the end of their journey. Spending a cold Valentine's Day alone can be tough, but Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and John Bolton (The Evil Dead) want you to know that all it takes to make it through is the love of a good clown! From New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline), one of the world's best-loved comics writers! Beautiful surrealism from master painter John Bolton (God Save the Queen)! Gorgeously re-designed new edition! Back in print for the first time in years!

Harlequin

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007310307
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin written by Bernard Cornwell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 14th century, dark days fell on the Church as two popes, one in Rome and the other in Avignon, each supported by different political empires, struggled for supremacy. Hearing of a secret which may bring them victory, one side hired a mercenary to retrieve this priceless information. Thomas of Hookton is an English archer. When his village is sacked by raiders, he escapes and becomes an archer in the army of King Edward III. The King and his son are going to France with a great force of knights and men-at-arms, led by great lords. But it is the archers, the common men, who will decide the success or failure of the invasion.

Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Parody

Author : David Francis Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300223757
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Parody written by David Francis Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original take on literary history that uses visual satire to explore literature's importance to eighteenth-century political culture

Meet Me in London

Author : Georgia Toffolo
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 0369717678
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Meet Me in London written by Georgia Toffolo and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Armchair travelers will adore this tour of Christmastime London…[a] charming rom-com from British reality TV star Georgia Toffolo.” —Publishers Weekly Fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December and Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze will adore watching Victoria and Oliver's pretend engagement dissolve as their very real chemistry threatens to upend all their carefully laid-out secrets. Set against the most charming London backdrop, Meet Me in London is an irrisistable seasonal treat! What do you do when your fake engagement starts to feel too real… Aspiring clothes designer Victoria Scott spends her days working in a bar in Chelsea and her evenings designing vintage clothes, dreaming of one day opening her own boutique. But these aspirations are under threat from the new department store opening at the end of her road. She needs a Christmas miracle, but one is not forthcoming. Oliver Russell’s Christmas is not looking very festive right now. His family’s new London department store opening is behind schedule, and on top of that his interfering, if well-meaning, mother is pressing him to introduce his girlfriend to her over the holidays—a girlfriend who does not exist. He needs a diversion…something to keep his mother from meddling while he focuses on the business. When Oliver meets Victoria, he offers a proposition: pretend to be his girlfriend at the opening of his store and he will provide an opportunity for Victoria to showcase her designs. But what starts as a business arrangement soon becomes something more tempting as the fake relationship starts to feel very real. But when secrets in Victoria’s past are exposed, will Oliver walk away, or will they both follow their hearts and find what neither knew they were looking for…? "An ideal Christmas escape!"—Laura Jane Williams, Bestselling author of Our Stop

Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Author : Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485565
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America written by Ann R. Hawkins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.

Shakespeare at War

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517489
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare at War written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.

Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000

Author : Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030428826
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 written by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

The Celebrated Hannah Cowley

Author : Angela Escott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323475
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Celebrated Hannah Cowley written by Angela Escott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

British Birds

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Birds written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Sport - A Bibliography to 2000

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135287422
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book British Sport - A Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum: A-K.- v. 2. L-Z and First supplement

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487 and 1800 Now in the British Museum: A-K.- v. 2. L-Z and First supplement written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture

Author : Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192540467
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture written by Oskar Cox Jensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with specialisation in the early nineteenth century. The chapters, written by some of the leading experts in their individual disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career, spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours; from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery. Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian cultural production.