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Author : Anne Hermanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (948 download)
Download or read book The Horror Plays of the English Restoration written by Anne Hermanson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Hermanson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317028546
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Horror Plays of the English Restoration written by Anne Hermanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588126
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)
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.
Author : Carolin Hauck
Publisher : Ergon Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3956504038
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Tracing the Heroic Through Gender written by Carolin Hauck and published by Ergon Verlag. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nahezu allen Gesellschaften und Epochen ist das Heroische vielfach gegendert. Die soziale und kulturelle Produktion des Heroischen ist jedoch nicht ausschließlich mit dem Instrumentarium der Männlichkeitsforschung zu fassen, und ebenso wenig scheint es sinnvoll, Frauen bzw. Weiblichkeit in diesem Zusammenhang lediglich als Ausnahmen zu verstehen. Vielmehr gilt es, den relationalen Charakter ernst zu nehmen. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, Geschlecht als analytische Kategorie für die Heroismusforschung fruchtbar zu machen. Auf der Basis vielfältiger geisteswissenschaftlicher Ansätze dient diese Kategorie als 'Spurensucherin' (tracer) des Heroischen und als Instrument zur Untersuchung der historischen Bedingungen, medialen und performativen Erscheinungsformen sowie zeiträumlichen Konjunkturen und Transformationen. Diese gilt es, mit Hilfe der Kategorie Geschlecht und unter Nutzung der zugehörigen Eigenschaften neu auszumessen.
Author : Paula de Pando
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004379347
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes written by Paula de Pando and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula de Pando analyses the engagement of historical she-tragedy with Restoration politics and culture, positioning Banks’s plays at the crossroads between early modern genres and the emerging discourses of the long eighteenth century.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482830
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century written by Tanya M. Caldwell and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book King Lear written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author : McGraw-Hill, inc
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780070791695
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)
Download or read book McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama written by McGraw-Hill, inc and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1984 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.
Author : Brian Corman
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482997
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy written by Brian Corman and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.
Author : Angela Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316999645
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 1, Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Angela Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Goths' sacking of Rome in 410 AD through to its manifestations in British and European culture of the long eighteenth century. Written by international cast of leading scholars, the chapters explore the interdisciplinary nature of the Gothic in the fields of history, literature, architecture and fine art. As much a cultural history of Gothic as an account of the ways in which the Gothic has participated within a number of formative historical events across time, the volume offers fresh perspectives on familiar themes while also drawing new critical attention to a range of hitherto overlooked concerns. From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe to eighteenth-century politics and theatre, the volume provides a thorough and engaging overview of early Gothic culture in Britain and beyond.
Author : Henry Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472576225
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.
Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040932642
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi written by John Webster and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
