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Author : John Lawrence Toole
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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences of J. L. Toole written by John Lawrence Toole and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108057446
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving written by Bram Stoker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging 1906 two-volume tribute to the most famous actor-manager of the nineteenth century by his closest friend and business manager.
Author : Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian written by Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317399102
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Victorian Actor written by Michael Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 924 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 932 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Vincent
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191038148
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book I Hope I Don't Intrude written by David Vincent and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
Author : Andrew Horrall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526113872
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Inventing the cave man written by Andrew Horrall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author : Baron Henry Hawkins Brampton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387338740
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins written by Baron Henry Hawkins Brampton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Detroit Public Library
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Total Pages : 674 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131724236X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Victorian Theatrical Burlesques written by Richard Schoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays - represents a valuable scholarly tool for students and scholars of modern drama, theatre history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques includes a 'state-of-the-art' introduction which provides a general overview of theatrical burlesques in the Victorian era, emphasising performance history. Sustained reference is made to burlesques other than those presented in the anthology. Through its general introduction, prefaces and annotations to individual plays, checklist of burlesque plays, and bibliography, the unique volume allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to see Victorian burlesques as a rich historical record of shifting attitudes toward drama and the theatre.
Author : Bishopsgate Institute, London
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Total Pages : 662 pages
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Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library written by Bishopsgate Institute, London and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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:
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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Torch and Colonial Book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lawrence Toole
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458963406
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of J.L. Toole written by John Lawrence Toole and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. A Reception at Orme Square?Mr. and Mrs. Toole's Silver Wedding?Pleasant hours after midnight?Mr. Irving's first experience as a public reader on his own account? Toole at Dunfermline? A 'Norrible Tale in chapel? Lo the poor Indian ?Complimentary groans? Toole's age?Michael Garner on the stage and off?Old Garente and the bandits?David James's Whitechapel romance?Hollingshead and the birthplace of Podgers? Low salaries and high art?Actors and their friends? Artistic society?The shadow. The pleasant spirit of the closing picture of the previous chapter follows me in my last sunny memory of Orme Square. It was on April 27th, 1879, that Mr. and Mrs. Toole celebrated their silver wedding. Over a hundred friends accepted the invitation of the host and hostess to an evening reception. The guests were representative ladies and gentlemen, some of them already celebrated in the world of Literature and Art, others who have since achieved fame and prosperity. Each of them came with either a bouquet of flowers or a gift of silver plate, or both, and each might have wondered where the hostess would find room for another bouquet, or another less perishable souvenir; for quite early in the evening every sideboard, shelf, mantelpiece, table, seemed to be gay with flowers, or white with silver. Some of the tributes of love and esteem were accompanied with pleasant conceits in verse; others were signalized by serious and touching lines, such, for example, as the silver token from Mr. Clement Scott. When the rooms were crowded with guests, it was suggested that the poet should read his verses, whereupon he recited the following stanzas with excellent effect: ? To John Lawrence Toole On His silver Wedding. A Silver Wedding Johnnie, is it true, ...
Author : Port Elizabeth Public Library
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Reference and Lending Departments written by Port Elizabeth Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Magpie Jacket written by Nat Gould and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
