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The Beaux Stratagen In Restoration Plays From Dryden To Farquhar
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Book Synopsis Restoration Plays and Players by : David Roberts
Download or read book Restoration Plays and Players written by David Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.
Book Synopsis British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan by : George Winchester Stone
Download or read book British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan written by George Winchester Stone and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
Book Synopsis Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by : Denise L. Montgomery
Download or read book Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections written by Denise L. Montgomery and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
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Book Synopsis Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research by : Carl Joseph Stratman
Download or read book Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research written by Carl Joseph Stratman and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive compilation of twentieth-century scholarship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century drama provides a basis for future research and is an invaluable reference work. Items are arranged alphabetically under general headings--e.g., acting, criticism, periodicals, music, theology--as well as alphabetically by surname of actor, actress, dramatist, musician, etc. Copiously indexed.
Book Synopsis The Beaux' Stratagem by : George Farquhar
Download or read book The Beaux' Stratagem written by George Farquhar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight: Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress to marry. Aimwell, posing as his elder brother, falls in love with his 'prey' Dorinda and confesses his imposture to her; his 'man-servant' Archer arouses the wistful interest of the unhappily married Mrs Sullen. The introduction to this edition discusses the play for its theatrical merits and argues that it dramatises the ills of marriage in early modern England, shown by Farquhar to be more injurious to the wife than to the husband, and calls for a reform of the divorce laws.
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Book Synopsis History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne by : Andrew Lang
Download or read book History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne written by Andrew Lang and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lang's survey of English literature is a remarkably thorough look at the history of English writing, covering authors from Abbot Adamnan to Edward Young, and everyone of note in between.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of English Literature by : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy by : M. Anderson
Download or read book Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by M. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
Book Synopsis Box, Pit, and Gallery by : James J. Lynch
Download or read book Box, Pit, and Gallery written by James J. Lynch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 by : Julia Swindells
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 written by Julia Swindells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms — not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime — as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, the Handbook shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
Book Synopsis The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy by : Kathleen M. Lynch
Download or read book The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy written by Kathleen M. Lynch and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist by : Eugene Nelson James
Download or read book The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist written by Eugene Nelson James and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by : Deborah Payne Fisk
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre written by Deborah Payne Fisk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Book Synopsis The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre by : Jonathan Law
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre written by Jonathan Law and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre is an essential reference tool and companion for anyone interested in the theatre and theatre-going. Containing over 2500 entries it covers the international spectrum of theatre with particular emphasis on the UK and USA. With biographical information on playwrights, actors and directors, entries on theatres and theatre companies, explanation of technical terms and theatrical genres, and synopses of major plays, this is an authoritative, trustworthy and comprehensive compendium. Included are: synopses of 500 major plays biographical entries on hundreds of playwrights, actors, directors and producers definitions of nearly 200 genres and movements entries on over 100 key characters from plays information about more than 250 theatres and companies Unlike similar products, The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre avoids a dry, technical approach with its sprinkling of anecdotal asides and fascinating trivia, such as how Michael Gambon gave his name to a corner of a racing track following an incident on BBC's Top Gear programme, and under 'advice to actors' the sage words of Alec Guinness: 'First wipe your nose and check your flies', and the equally wise guidance from the master of his art, Noël Coward: 'Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.' As a companion to everything from the main stage to the fringes of theatrical fact and folklore, this will prove an irresistible book to all fans of the theatre.
Book Synopsis Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. by : Folger Shakespeare Library
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature by : Robert Chambers
Download or read book Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
