Henry Irvings Waterloo

Download Henry Irvings Waterloo full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Henry Irvings Waterloo ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Henry Irving's Waterloo

Author : W. D. King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520333322
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Henry Irving's Waterloo by : W. D. King

Download or read book Henry Irving's Waterloo written by W. D. King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Henry Irving

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351156462
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Henry Irving by : Richard Foulkes

Download or read book Henry Irving written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.

The President Electric

Author : Timothy Raphael
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026631
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The President Electric by : Timothy Raphael

Download or read book The President Electric written by Timothy Raphael and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this illuminating, multi-pronged cultural and performance history of such phenomena as Chautauqua and radio, movies, and electrical technology, Timothy Raphael puts together a compelling and sometimes revelatory narrative of how commandingly Reagan mastered the matrix of performance, technology, media, celebrity, and the 'republic of consumption' he came of age in." ---Dana Nelson, Vanderbilt University "Garry Wills and others have written well on the phenomenon of Ronald Reagan, the actor-president, but this is the first book by a real authority---trained in performance and fully reflective about it from the inside . . . unquestionably an important contribution to the disciplinary fields of American studies and performance studies, and an important contribution to public affairs." ---Joseph Roach, Yale University When Ronald Reagan first entered politics in 1965, his public profile as a performer in radio, film, television, and advertising and his experience in public relations proved invaluable political assets. By the time he left office in 1989, the media in which he trained had become the primary source for generating and wielding political power. The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance reveals how the systematic employment of the techniques and technologies of mass-media performance contributed to Reagan’s rise to power and defined his style of governance. The President Electric stands out among books on Reagan as the first to bring the rich insights of the field of performance studies to an understanding of the Reagan phenomenon, connecting Reagan's training in electronic media to the nineteenth-century notion of the "fiat of electricity"---the emerging sociopolitical power of three entities (mechanical science, corporate capitalism, and mass culture) that electric technology made possible. The book describes how this new regime of cultural and political representation shaped the development of the electronic mass media that transformed American culture and politics and educated Ronald Reagan for his future role as president. Timothy Raphael is Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Center for Immigration at Rutgers University, Newark. Photo: © David H. Wells/Corbis

Contemporary Collecting

Author : Kevin M. Moist
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081089114X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary Collecting by : Kevin M. Moist

Download or read book Contemporary Collecting written by Kevin M. Moist and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such as eBay, collecting has had a consistent and growing presence in popular culture. In tandem with popular collecting, institutions are responding to changes in the collecting environment, as library catalogs go online and museums use new technologies to help generate attendance for their exhibits. In Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, Kevin M. Moist and David Banash have assembled several essays that examine collecting practices on both a personal and professional level. These essays situate collectors and collections in a contemporary context and also show how our changing world finds new meaning in the legacy of older collections. Arranged by such themes as “Collecting in a Virtual World,” “Changing Relationships with Things,” “Collecting and Identity—Personal and Political,” and “Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies,” these essays help illuminate the role of objects in our lives. Covering a breadth of interdisciplinary perspectives and subjects—from PEZ candy dispensers and trading cards to sports memorabilia and music—Contemporary Collecting will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture studies, sociology, art history, and more.

A Happy Holiday

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692413
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Happy Holiday by : Cecilia Morgan

Download or read book A Happy Holiday written by Cecilia Morgan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels of English-speaking Canadian men and women to Britain and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the experiences of tourists, detailing where they went and their reactions to tourist sites, and draws attention to the centrality of culture and the sensory dimensions of overseas tourism. Among the specific topics explored are travellers' class relationships with people in the tourism industry, impressions of historic landscapes in Britain and Europe, descriptions of imperial spectacles and cultural sights, the use of public spaces, and encounters with fellow tourists and how such encounters either solidified or unsettled national subjectivities. Cecilia Morgan draws our attention to the important ambiguities between empire and nation, and how this relationship was dealt with by tourists in foreign lands. Based on personal letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals from across Canada, A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.

Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad

Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013275
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad by : Cecilia Morgan

Download or read book Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad written by Cecilia Morgan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these “sweet girls’” childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Investigating a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how actresses evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and how they brought their craft to new media. Paying particular attention to the careers of Margaret Bannerman, Tony Award-winner Beatrice Lillie, Margaret Anglin, Julia Arthur, and Frances Doble, among many others, this book explores how being an actress abroad became work as well as profession for Canadian women. Extensively researched and generously illustrated, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad argues for the importance of theatre, both to Canadian women’s history and to our understanding of Canada in a transnational world.

Alice in Sunderland

Author : Bryan Talbot
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1630084042
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Alice in Sunderland by : Bryan Talbot

Download or read book Alice in Sunderland written by Bryan Talbot and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece. Enter the famous Edwardian palace of varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience: an entertaining and epic meditation on myth, history and storytelling and decide for yourself — does Sunderland really exist?

Humanities

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Humanities by :

Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humanities

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Humanities by : National Endowment for the Humanities

Download or read book Humanities written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker

Author : J. Browning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137330848
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker by : J. Browning

Download or read book The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker written by J. Browning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period writings about Stoker, and the rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of his personal library.

Edison Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Edison Life by :

Download or read book Edison Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in the Theatre

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Who's who in the Theatre by :

Download or read book Who's who in the Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Players' Gallery

Author : W. J. Thorold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Our Players' Gallery by : W. J. Thorold

Download or read book Our Players' Gallery written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre Magazine

Author : W. J. Thorold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theatre Magazine by : W. J. Thorold

Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theatre Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theatre Magazine by :

Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francis Turner Palgrave

Author : Francis Turner Palgrave
Publisher : London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Francis Turner Palgrave by : Francis Turner Palgrave

Download or read book Francis Turner Palgrave written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company. This book was released on 1899 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of the West End Stage

Author : Jacky Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502220
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Making of the West End Stage by : Jacky Bratton

Download or read book The Making of the West End Stage written by Jacky Bratton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little Strand Theatre and the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street in the experience of mid-century London, and of plays drawn from the work of Charles Dickens as well as burlesques by the early writers of Punch. Discovering a much more dynamic and often woman-led entertainment industry at the heart of the British Empire, this book seeks a new understanding of the work of women including Eliza Vestris, Mary Ann Keeley and Marie Wilton in creating the template for a magical new theatre of music, feeling and spectacle.