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Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2 by : Gail Marshall
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.
Book Synopsis The Collected Poems of Anna Seward Volume 2 by : Lisa L. Moore
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Anna Seward Volume 2 written by Lisa L. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical edition of the poems of Anna Seward (1742-1809) re-establishes one of the most popular and prolific poets of the early Romantic period. Her work influenced Charllotte Smith and Mary Robinson and later both Wordsworth and Coleridge. Her reputation was so high that Sir Walter Scott edited the posthumous edition of her poems in 1810. Unlike Scott's, this edition reproduces the poems as they were first published in periodicals and collections during Seward's lifetime, allowing scholars to experience them as eighteenth century readers did. It also includes mire than 200 poems that were excluded from the Scott edition.
Book Synopsis Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I Vol 5 by : Sue Mcpherson
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.
Book Synopsis Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama by : Keir Elam
Download or read book Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama written by Keir Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.
Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3 by : Gail Marshall
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.
Book Synopsis Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie
Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 by : Tetsuo Kishi
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 547 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.
Book Synopsis Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 2 by : Harriet Devine Jump
Download or read book Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 2 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.
Book Synopsis The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley Vol 1 by : Kerri Andrews
Download or read book The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley Vol 1 written by Kerri Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the works of Ann Yearsley, a laboring-class poet' whose writing forms part of an under-represented area of romanticism. This work includes her play "Earl Goodwin" and novel "The Royal Captives".
Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 2 by : Tetsuo Kishi
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.
Book Synopsis Women's Theatrical Memoirs: Thomas Campbell, Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834), vol. I by : Sharon McClanahan Setzer
Download or read book Women's Theatrical Memoirs: Thomas Campbell, Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834), vol. I written by Sharon McClanahan Setzer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Boston Public Library by : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
Download or read book Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo by : Michael J. Sidnell
Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the series Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theatre. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr Johnson, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Coleridge.Many of the texts have been newly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced.Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.
Download or read book Sarah Siddons written by Jo Willett and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family troupe of travelling actors, always poor and often hungry, resorting to foraging for turnips to eat. But before she was 30 she had become a superstar, her fees greater than any actor - male or female - had previously achieved. Her rise was not easy. Her London debut, aged just 20, was a disaster and could have condemned her to poverty and anonymity. But the young actress – already a mother of two - rebuilt her career, returning triumphantly to the capital after years of remorseless provincial touring. She became Britain’s greatest tragic actress, electrifying audiences with her performances. Her shows were sell-outs. Adored by theater audiences, writers, artists and the royal family alike, Sarah grasped the importance of her image. She made sure that every leading portrait painter captured her likeness, so that engravings could be sold to her adoring public. In an eighteenth-century world of vicious satire and gossip, she also battled to manage her reputation. Married young, she took constant pains to portray herself as a respectable and happily married woman, even though her marriage did not live up to this ideal. Sarah’s story is not just about rags to riches; this remarkable woman also redefined the world of theater and became the first celebrity actress.
Book Synopsis The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald Vol 2 by : Ben P Robertson
Download or read book The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald Vol 2 written by Ben P Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic woman, Inchbald achieved fame as an actress, novelist, playwright and critic. This work includes her eleven surviving diaries, which record Inchbald's social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs such as the Napoleonic Wars and the trial of Queen Caroline.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss by : Emily Hodgson Anderson
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss written by Emily Hodgson Anderson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again. In chapters featuring Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick’s performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.
Author :Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) Publisher :Boston : The Trustees ISBN 13 : Total Pages :976 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston by : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
