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Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theater written by Martin Meisel and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-09-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691061214
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Shaw and 19th Century Theater written by Martin Meisel and published by . This book was released on 1963-07-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Shaw and 19th Century Theater, will be forthcoming.
Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008238
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre written by Michael R. Booth and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of the prefaces from the author's "English plays of the nineteenth century" (5 vols. ; London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969-1976) provides an introduction to the critical interpretations of most genres of English drama.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835611
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Shaw on Shakespeare written by Bernard Shaw and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his." - From SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE Celebrated playwright, critic and essayist George Bernard Shaw was more like the Elizabethan master that he would ever admit. Both men were intristic dramatists who shared a rich and abiding respect for the stage. Shakespeare was the produce of a tempestuous and enlightening era under the reign of his patron, Queen Elizabeth I; while G.B.S. reflected the racy and risque spirt of the late 19th century as the champion of modern drama by playwrights like Ibsen, and, later, himself. Culled from Shaw's reviews, prefaces, letters to actors and critics, and other writings, SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE offers a fascinating and unforgettable portrait of the 16th century playwright by his most outspoken critic. This is a witty and provocative classic that combines Shaw's prodigious critical acumen with a superlative prose style second to none (except, perhaps, Shakespeare!).
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795346883
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Bernard Shaw on Theater written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers, and even government officials to take theater more seriously, to use the stage as a forum for representing complex real issues such as poverty, marriage and divorce laws, sexual attraction, gender equality, and political power, so that through seeing them acted out, audiences could better understand and address them when they left the theater. Shaw’s commitment to social reform through theater was matched by his expertise in the artistic and practical aspects of drama: whether he was reviewing productions, lecturing about acting, or schooling agents on royalties and copyright law, Shaw set a standard for intelligent professionalism that our own theaters might still aspire to and be measured against. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.
Author : T. Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589480
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Performing Century written by T. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
Author : Harry White
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191563161
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Music and the Irish Literary Imagination written by Harry White and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. He argues that this preoccupation decisively influenced Moore's attempt to translate the 'meaning' of Irish music into verse, and that it also informed Moore's considerable impact on the development of European musical romanticism, as in the music of Berlioz and Schumann. White then examines how this preoccupation was later recovered by W.B. Yeats, whose poetry is imbued with music as a rival presence to language. In its readings of Yeats, Synge, Shaw and Joyce, the book argues that this striking musical awareness had a profound influence on the Irish literary imagination, to the extent that poetry, fiction and drama could function as correlatives of musical genres. Although Yeats insisted on the synonymous condition of speech and song in his poetry, Synge, Shaw and Joyce explicitly identified opera in particular as a generic prototype for their own work. Synge's formal musical training and early inclinations as a composer, Shaw's perception of himself as the natural successor to Wagner, and Joyce's no less striking absorption of a host of musical techniques in his fiction are advanced in this study as formative (rather than incidental) elements in the development of modern Irish writing. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination also considers Beckett's emancipation from the oppressive condition of words in general (and Joyce in particular) through the agency of music, and argues that the strong presence of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Janácek in the works of Brian Friel is correspondingly essential to Friel's dramatisation of Irish experience in the aftermath of Beckett. The book closes with a reading of Seamus Heaney, in which the poet's own preoccupation with the currency of established literary forms is enlisted to illuminate Heaney's abiding sense of poetry as music.
Author : Mary Christian
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030406393
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists written by Mary Christian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and domesticity, and, in the process, these authors appropriated and rewrote the genre conventions that had dominated English drama for much of the nineteenth century. In their plays, theater became a forum for debating the problems of traditional marriage and envisioning alternative forms of partnership. This book is written for scholars specializing in the areas of Victorian studies, dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies, and gender studies.
Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199215499
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book How Plays Work written by Martin Meisel and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meisel begins with a look at matters often taken for granted in coding and convention, and then - under 'Beginnings' - at what is entailed in establishing and entering the invented world of the play. Each succeeding chapter is a gesture at enlarging the scope. The final chapters explore ways in which both the drive for significant understanding and the appetite for wonder can and do find satisfaction and delight." "Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, How Plays Work is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure. It will appeal as much to the serious student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before seeing it performed."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476693595
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Takes the Stage written by Samuel L. Leiter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566339
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw written by Christopher Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Prose written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137370386
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.
Author : John Stokes
Publisher : London : Elek
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Resistible Theatres: Enterprise and Experiment in the Late Nineteenth Century written by John Stokes and published by London : Elek. This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the history and theatre movements in Great Britain.
Author : Gale K. Larson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271022277
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Shaw written by Gale K. Larson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaw, now in its twenty-second year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.
Author : Myron Matlaw
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-century American Plays written by Myron Matlaw and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applause Books
