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Author : John Gallott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Elephant of Siam, and the Fire Fiend! written by John Gallott and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743324308
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Fighting Nature written by Peta Tait and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict, war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires. Fighting nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. "Peta Tait brings to the book an impressive scholarly command of the documentary material, from which she draws a range of vivid examples and revealing analyses of human–animal confrontation in popular entertainments ... The book is written with verve and clarity, and will be of interest to a wide readership in performance studies and cultural history." Professor Jane R. Goodall, Western Sydney University Peta Tait FAHA is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, and author of Wild and dangerous performances: animals, emotions, circus (2012).
Author : Marty Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136740538
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter written by Marty Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful and yet uncertain site for the transmission of official imperial ideologies. Nineteenth-century playwrights fed the public’s interest in Britain’s Empire by producing a wide variety of plays set in colonial locales: India, Australia, and—to a lesser extent—Africa. These plays recreated the battles that consolidated Britain’s hold on overseas territories, dramatically depicted western humanitarian intervention in indigenous cultural practices, celebrated images of imperial supremacy, and occasionally criticized the sexual and material excesses that accompanied the processes of empire-building. An active participant in the real-world drama of empire, the Victorian theatre produced popular images that reflected, interrogated, and reinforced imperial policy. Indeed, it was largely through plays and spectacles that the British public vicariously encountered the sights and sounds of the distant imperial periphery. Empire as it was seen on stage was empire as it was popularly known: the repetitions of character types, plot scenarios, and thematic concerns helped forge an idea of empire that, though largely imaginary, entertained, informed, and molded the theatre-going British public.
Author : Rob Kilburn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750996323
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Tyne and Weird written by Rob Kilburn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Since man uttered his first word he has been telling stories for entertainment, to serve as warnings and to simply pass the time.' Huddled up against the end of Hadrian's Wall, the county of Tyne and Wear is known for its wealth of historical sites, for castles, the Venerable Bede, and stotty cakes. But did you know about Sunderland's brush with the greatest liar on earth, or the widespread mesmerism of the Victorian era? And what's the connection with all these Americans? This is an eclectic collection of local characters and historical oddities, of short (and tall) tales that perfectly illustrate just how weird Tyne and Wear can truly be.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 178131246X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Jumbo written by John Sutherland and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to Paris as a two year old calf, then later sold to the London Zoo at Regent's Park, Jumbo the elephant delighted countless children (including Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt) with rides and treats gently taken from outstretched hands. Each night, after the children and their families had gone home, he was mistreated in an attempt to keep him docile. By the time he reached sexual maturity, the abused and isolated animal had become dangerously unstable. He was sold to showman P.T. Barnum in 1881 (despite letters from 100,000 British schoolchildren who wrote to Queen Victoria begging her to prevent the sale) and brought to America. There, in the company of other elephants and amid greater physical freedom, Jumbo stabilized and went on to become one of the most lucrative circus acts of all time - as well as the most beloved. The world mourned when his life ended in 1885, with a storied (and most likely embellished) act of animal heroism. Jumbo reportedly rushed in front of an oncoming train in an effort to save a smaller elephant – his companion "Tom Thumb" – then perished while reaching his trunk out toward his longtime handler Matthew Scott – whose intense connection with the pachyderm spawned legends of its own. Integrating the history of elephants in captivity along with the details of Jumbo's celebrity life, dramatic death, and lasting cultural legacy, John Sutherland has written the first comprehensive "biography" of this incredible animal - one whose name has given us one of our most common and hyperbolic adjectives.
Author : David Grimsted
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059962
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Melodrama Unveiled written by David Grimsted and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Grimsted's Melodrama Unveiled explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic settings that gave them life, Grimsted offers us rich descriptions of the interaction of performers, audiences, critics, managers, and stage mechanics. Because these plays had to appeal immediately and directly to diverse audiences, they provide dramatic clues to the least common denominator of social values and concerns. In considering both the context and content of popular culture, Grimsted's book suggests how theater reflected the rapidly changing society of antebellum America.
Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Field Day Publications
ISBN 13 : 0946755450
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Field Day Review 5 written by Seamus Deane and published by Field Day Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Day Review, the best Irish Studies essays and international contexts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dance Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Ford
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749040491
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The True History of the Elephant Man written by Peter Ford and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1852, is better known as the Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up one day at Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves' surprise, he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merrick's corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had been tortured, and a nature as gentle and dignified as it had been deprived and tormented. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become a part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and unromanticised facts of his life. An extraordinary and moving story, set amongst the brutal realities of the Victorian world, telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds.
Author : Michael Howell
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602397368
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The True History of the Elephant Man written by Michael Howell and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As famous today as he was in his time, here is the whole story of the Elephant Man.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Dramatic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Watkins
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083379X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Dark Matter written by Tony Watkins and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses a Christian perspective to interpret the popular trilogy, offering a look Pullman's life, an overview of the major dimensions of each book, and a critical evaluation of such major themes as sin and the death of God.
Author : Joseph Norton Ireland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Records of the New York Stage, from 1750 to 1860 written by Joseph Norton Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Theatre Arts Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheldon Cheney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theatre Arts Magazine written by Sheldon Cheney and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Theatre Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Redington Bobby
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600813
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Beyond His Dark Materials written by Susan Redington Bobby and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and this book explores those worlds. The picture books, novellas and novels written for children, adolescents and adults are analyzed through the themes of innocence and experience. The journeys Pullman sets his characters on teach them that one must embrace change, loss and suffering to grow in wisdom and grace.
