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Author : Sharon M. Setzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women's Theatrical Memoirs: v. 1. Memoirs of the late Mrs Robinson (1801) written by Sharon M. Setzer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sue Mcpherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040243835
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I Vol 4 written by Sue Mcpherson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
Author : Judith Pascoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027956
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Sarah Siddons Audio Files written by Judith Pascoe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research.” —Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine During her lifetime (1755–1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like—an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures—but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor’s voice actually sounded. In lively and engaging prose, Pascoe retraces her quixotic search, which leads her to enroll in a “Voice for Actors” class, to collect Lady Macbeth voice prints, and to listen more carefully to the soundscape of her life. Bringing together archival discoveries, sound recording history, and media theory, Pascoe shows how romantic poets’ preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety about the voice’s ephemerality. The Sarah Siddons Audio Files contributes to a growing body of work on the fascinating history of sound and will engage a broad audience interested in how recording technology has altered human experience.
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350073296
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Through their powerful acting and meticulous conceptualisation of Shakespeare's characters and their worlds, they created iconic interpretations of Shakespeare's major roles that live on in our theatrical and cultural memory. This book examines the actors' long careers on the London stage, from Siddons's debut in 1782 to Kemble's retirement in 1817, encompassing Kemble's time as theatre manager, when he sought to foreground their strengths as Shakespearean performers in his productions. Over the course of more than thirty years, Siddons and Kemble appeared opposite one another in many Shakespeare plays, including King John, Henry VIII, Coriolanus and Macbeth. The actors had to negotiate two major Shakespeare scandals: the staging of Vortigern – a fake Shakespearean play – in 1796 and the Old Price Riots of 1809, during which the audience challenged Siddons's and Kemble's perceived attempts to control Shakespeare. Fiona Ritchie examines the siblings' careers, focusing on their collaborations, as well as placing Siddons's and Kemble's Shakespeare performances in the context of contemporary 18th- and 19th-century drama. The volume not only offers a detailed consideration of London theatre, but also explores the importance of provincial performance to the actors, notably in the case of Hamlet – a role in which both appeared across Britain and in Ireland.
Author : Russ McDonald
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325064
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Look to the Lady written by Russ McDonald and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McDonald also discerns parallels and distinctions in the approaches of Siddons, Terry, and Dench to the vocation of acting - specifically to Lady Macbeth and other great Shakespearean roles. Look to the Lady also helps us to better understand the place and function of the theater in British national life and what constitutes "great acting" at various historical moments." "Throughout, McDonald blends learned commentary on the history and culture of the stage with entertaining details about the appearance, personality, genealogy, and private life of each actor. Including some rarely seen images and drawing on previously untapped reviews and anecdotes, this is a lively introduction to the burgeoning field of performance criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Annibel Jenkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813193931
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book I'll Tell You What written by Annibel Jenkins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century—an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London. Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London stage debut a year later, and her writing debut came in 1784 with the play The Mogul Tale; Or, The Descent of the Balloon. Over the next two decades she wrote or adapted twenty-one plays: comedies, farces, and works from French and German, including the version of Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, later used in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Inchbald's acclaimed first novel, A Simple Story, prefigured the work of later women writers such as Austen. Using material from Inchbald's own pocket books detailing her daily life (she destroyed most of her letters and journals late in her life at the advice of her Catholic confessor) as well as a wealth of other sources, Annibel Jenkins tells for the first time not only the full story of Mrs. Inchbald's life but also provides a fascinating look at the society and politics, both public and private, of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472578546
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Great Shakespeareans Set I written by Peter Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Author : Sue Mcpherson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104024386X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I Vol 5 written by Sue Mcpherson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book University of California Publications in Modern Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Weldy Boyd
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086688
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography written by Amanda Weldy Boyd and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
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Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Laurence
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057205
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Women, Scholarship and Criticism C. 1790-1900 written by Anne Laurence and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume explores a wide range of artistic, critical, and cultural productions by women scholars, critics, and artists between 1790 and 1900, many of whom are little known. The essays question the concepts of “scholarship,” “criticism,” and “artist” across different disciplines, focusing on the gendered associations and exclusions and on structures of sexual difference. Women discussed include Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan, and Anna Jameson; actresses such as Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson; critics such as Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke; historians such as Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper, and Lucy Toulmin Smith; the writers and readers of women's magazines; educationalists such as the Shirreff sisters, and translators such as Anna Swanwick, as well as many others.
Author : Harold Lawton Bruce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Voltaire on the English Stage written by Harold Lawton Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Cohan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429509421
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Plays of James Boaden written by Steven Cohan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally compiled and published in 1980, this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama mention Broaden, he loved the theatre and its world, and this love comes across in everything he wrote. This volume contains plays including the songs and chorusses of his first, Ozmynn and Daraxa, from 1793, Fountainville Forest, from 1794, and The Secret Tribunal, from 1795, as well as many others.
Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521411158
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Three Tragic Actresses written by Michael R. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the careers of three very different but pivotal actresses, placing their art in context.
Author : Athenæum (SALEM, Massachusetts)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum in Salem, Massachusetts, with the By-Laws and Regulations written by Athenæum (SALEM, Massachusetts) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
