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Author : Michael Caines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors: David Garrick written by Michael Caines and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040251021
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 441 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 : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198703295
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Great Shakespeare Actors written by Stanley Wells and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a concise, actor-centred history of Shakespeare on the stage.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781851968534
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I written by Gail Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 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 : Vanessa Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521889774
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Garrick written by Vanessa Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the changes made by eighteenth-century actor-manager David Garrick to Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715664
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Becoming Shakespeare written by Jack Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the death of William Shakespeare in 1616, a study of the bard explores his evolution from provincial playwright to universally acclaimed, literary giant, beginning with his growing popularity during the late-seventeenth-century Restoration and ranging to the Stratford celebration of the tricentennial of Shakespeare's birth in 1864.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040128882
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129129
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129005
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 2 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040128637
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.
Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584563624
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (636 download)
Download or read book An Actor's Library written by Nicholas D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book collecting, bibliomania and the eighteenth-century -- Building a library -- Garrick, book culture and The Club -- Collecting Shakespeare and other English dramatists -- Book-buying in France and Italy -- Dispersal -- Appendix A. Locations of Garrick's books -- Appendix B. Books to which Garrick subscribed -- Appendix C. Books addressed/dedicated to Garrick -- Appendix D. Lots purchased by Thomas Thorpe at the 1823 sale -- Appendix E. Garrick books formerly belonging to George Frederick Beltz -- Appendix F. Carrington Garrick's books
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898609
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
Author : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429820038
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Modern Theatre written by Norman S. Poser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.
Author : Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475876
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity written by Leslie Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195160932
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare written by Stanley Wells and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.
Author : Jean Benedetti
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre written by Jean Benedetti and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Actor, director, impresario, author, David Garrick (1717-1779) is the most legendary man of the theatre of modern times. He reformed English theatre practice, established a 'natural' style of acting, and made the profession socially acceptable. As his great friend Dr. Johnson remarked, no actor before Garrick had made so much money nor achieved such an eminent position in society. Not for nothing is the most exclusive club in London named after him: Garrick was the first international 'megastar'." "Garrick's circle of friends was enormous and covered the social spectrum, from lawyers and wine merchants to the most famous men of letters and statesmen of his time: Pope, Boswell, Edmund Burke, Lord Burlington, Lord Chesterfield, the Prime Minister Pitt the Elder, the Lord Chancellor: the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Spencer. In France he counted Diderot, d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and the philosophes among his acquaintance. Though never honoured, he was at the very centre of his world." "Drawing on the large amount of source material available - from the accounts of Johnson's friendship with Garrick by James Boswell, through descriptions of his acting by English, French and German critics, to his own diaries and letters - Jean Benedetti has written a lively and fascinating account of Garrick's style and reforms, clearly establishing his pivotal role in the development of acting and directing."--Book Jacket.
Author : David Garrick
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308637
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Plays of David Garrick written by David Garrick and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all masterpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage historian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Cymon. A Dramatic Romance, 1767; Linco's Travels. An Interlude, 1767; A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal, 1767; The Jubilee, 1769; The Institution of the Garter; or, Arthur's Roundtable Restored, 1771; The Irish Widow, 1772; A Christmas Tale. A New Dramatic Entertainment, 1773; The Meeting of the Company; or, Bayes's Art of Acting, 1774; Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs, 1775; May-Day; or, The Little Gipsy, 1775; and The Theatrical Candidates, 1775.
