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Download or read book The Fatal Glass, Or, The Curse of Drink : a Drama in Three Acts [In, French's Acting Edition. Volume 106]. written by and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. MACCLOSKEY
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Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book The Fatal Glass, Or, The Curse of Drink written by James J. MACCLOSKEY and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. McCloskey
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Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book The Fatal Glass, Or, The Curse of Drink written by James J. McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Weiss
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750995
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Hell of the English written by Barbara Weiss and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and traces bankruptcy as an archetypal experience of the Victorian age and as a major metaphor in the language, imagery, and structure of the Victorian novel. With reference to selected works by Eliot, Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, and Thackeray, it presents the range of symbolic meanings of the bankruptcy metaphor.
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453247408
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Fatal Glass of Beer written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “enjoyable lark” is a road-trip mystery with an old Hollywood backdrop, starring PI Toby Peters and the great comic W. C. Fields (Library Journal). Under names like Otis J. Raisincluster, Quigley E. Sneersight, and Cormorant Beecham III, W. C. Fields squirreled away nearly a million dollars in banks across the country during his vaudeville days—before he became one of the silver screen’s most recognizable funnymen. But it’s no laughing matter when a burglar has the audacity to rob him blind, stealing his bankbooks and cleaning out his accounts. Steaming, the comedian hires Hollywood private investigator Toby Peters to track down the missing dough and protect what remains of his nest egg. On a cross-country road trip through small-town 1940s America, a frequently inebriated Fields and a frequently exasperated Peters encounter complications in the form of the Amish, John Barrymore, and the Ku Klux Klan. But can they catch their elusive quarry—Lester O. Hipnoodle? “Even on the printed page . . . Fields’ nasal rap seems to rise up and envelop you” in the Edgar Award–winning author’s “mesmerizing” comic mystery (Chicago Sun-Times).
Author : Judy Cornes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476607362
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Alcohol in the Movies, 1898-1962 written by Judy Cornes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1906 film called The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend shows a man drinking and eating voraciously at a restaurant, then going home to bed. In the surreal scenes that follow, furniture disappears, tiny devils poke the man's head with pitchforks, and his bed hurls itself out the window and across the city. But it wasn't commentary on drinking; rather, it was a showcase of early special effects--double exposure photography, panning shots, and montage. Turn-of-the-century films typically treated drinking as a subject for comedy and ridicule, and the comic possibilities translated well into silent movies. As talkies developed and the film industry matured, alcohol's portrayal was reflected in the times: prohibition, the Great Depression, the war years, and as social commentary. Here is a study of 64 years of alcohol as portrayed in film. The author begins with the appearance in 1898 of what is probably the first commercial: a 30-second film of men in kilts dancing and the words "Scotch Whiskey" appearing in the background. The final film is 1962's Days of Wine and Roses, which addresses alcoholism. The author includes a film from each decade, those with artistic or historical value, those that represent the comedy, drama and musical genres, and well-known pictures such as The Lost Weekend and A Star Is Born. The first three chapters cover 1903 to 1939. The remaining chapters follow not a timeline but the growing complexity of the movies. A recurring motif is the use of the term "white logic," a phrase used by writer Jack London in his 1913 memoir John Barleycorn. It refers to disillusionment with everyday life brought on by and exacerbated by alcohol. An annotated filmography lists the date, source and other relevant information about movies in this study.
Author : James Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443860654
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Addiction and Performance written by James Reynolds and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction and Performance is a collection of essays offering a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, culture and performance. The problem of addiction is multifaceted, but existing approaches to it often emerge from the frameworks of single disciplines, foregrounding therapeutic or perhaps physiological perspectives over and above a combined approach. However, addictions are not formed or sustained in a vacuum, but are blended with and supported by a wide range of factors. Moreover, the role of culture both in understanding addiction and offering useful strategies of recovery has often been dismissed. In this book, James Reynolds and Zoe Zontou have gathered together leading practitioners and academics in order to explore addiction and performance, and to trouble, theorise, and describe specific ways of approaching their many relationships. This volume consequently offers an alternative conversation, bringing together a variety of discourses to generate a more politicised conceptualisation of addiction, one that facilitates a more complex understanding of addiction and performance, and their many facets. Addiction and Performance is a new and significant resource for students, artists, cultural organisations, service providers, academic researchers and therapeutic professionals working in the field of addiction.
Author : Elaine Frantz Parsons
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140169X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Manhood Lost written by Elaine Frantz Parsons and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption—thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition. Parsons also identifies the emergence of a complementary narrative of "female invasion"—womanhood as a moral force powerful enough to sway choice. As did many social reformers, women temperance advocates capitalized on notions of feminine virtue and domestic responsibilities to create a public role for themselves. Entering a distinctively male space—the saloon—to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion—politics—again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood.
Author : William Harmon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444361333
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Poetry Toolkit written by William Harmon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and write poetry. Explains the most important elements of poetry in clear language and an easily accessible manner Offers readers both the expertise of an established scholar and the insights of a practicing poet Draws on examples from more than 1,500 years of English literature
Author : Charles Reade
Publisher : London [Ont.] : Mestengo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Drink written by Charles Reade and published by London [Ont.] : Mestengo Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beatrix Hesse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113746304X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.
Author : William Davenport Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Drama written by William Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521817781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America written by John W. Frick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Author : Megan Sanborn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135967903
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama written by Megan Sanborn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually conservative ideals of the cult of true womanhood. They also examined the limits of honorable violence, and suggested the whiteness of national ethnicity. In investigating the relationship between theatre, popular literature, political rhetoric, and religious fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones reveals how anti-Mormon melodramas created a space for audiences to imagine a unified American identity.
Author : Elton Raymond Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ... The Curse of Drink written by Elton Raymond Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Gilbert B. Cross
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838716465
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Next Week--East Lynne written by Gilbert B. Cross and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines plot, character, setting, and spectacle, viewing the plays in performance. Discusses the importance of costume, makeup, gesture, and audience participation, and relates the subject matter of the plays to contemporary society, especially as it reflected England's change from a semi-feudal to an increasingly democratic society. Illustrated.
