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The Independent Patriot Or Musical Folly
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Book Synopsis The Independent Patriot : Or, Musical Folly. A Comedy... by :
Download or read book The Independent Patriot : Or, Musical Folly. A Comedy... written by and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Character's Theater by : Lisa A. Freeman
Download or read book Character's Theater written by Lisa A. Freeman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the governing metaphor of social life and a primary filter of psychic perception. Hume's "theater of the mind," Adam Smith's "impartial spectator," and Diderot's "tableaux" are all invoked by theorists to describe a process whereby the private individual comes to internalize theatrical logic and apprehend the self as other. To them theatricality is a critical mechanism of modern subjectivity but one that needs to be concealed if the subject's stability is to be maintained. Finding that much of this discussion about the "Age of the Spectator" has been conducted without reference to the play texts or actual theatrical practice, Freeman turns to drama and discovers a dynamic model of identity based on eighteenth-century conceptualizations of character. In contrast to the novel, which cultivated psychological tensions between private interiority and public show, dramatic characters in the eighteenth century experienced no private thoughts. The theater of the eighteenth century was not a theater of absorption but rather a theater of interaction, where what was monitored was not the depth of character, as in the novel, but the arc of a genre over the course of a series of discontinuous acts. In a genre-by-genre analysis of plays about plays, tragedy, comedies of manners, humours, and intrigue, and sentimental comedy, Freeman offers an interpretive account of eighteenth-century drama and its cultural work and demonstrates that by deploying an alternative model of identity, theater marked a site of resistance to the rise of the subject and to the ideological conformity enforced through that identity formation.
Book Synopsis Opera Remade, 1700-1750 by : Charles Dill
Download or read book Opera Remade, 1700-1750 written by Charles Dill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century by : Peter Sabor
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Peter Sabor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of this fascinating volume, which brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. The contributors approach Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, to illuminate the way contemporary philosophy, science and medicine, textual practice, theatre studies, and literature both informed and were influenced by eighteenth-century interpretations of his works. Among the topics are Falstaff and eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime, David Garrick's 1756 adaptation of The Winter's Tale and its relationship to medical theories of femininity, the textual practices of George Steevens, Shakespeare's importance in furthering the careers of actors on the eighteenth-century stage, and the influence of Shakespeare on writers as diverse as Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Ann Radcliff. Together, the essays paint a vivid picture of the relationship between eighteenth-century Shakespeare and ideas about shared nationhood, knowledge, morality, history, and the self.
Book Synopsis History of English Drama 1660-1900 by : Nicoll
Download or read book History of English Drama 1660-1900 written by Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Book Synopsis A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750 by : Allardyce Nicoll
Download or read book A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fly-Leaves. [Being a Collection of Literary and Bibliographical Memoranda Communicated to the Gentleman's Magazine and Other Journals, by J. Haslewood, Cut Out and Pasted in a Volume, Including an Elegy by T. Chatterton on W. Beckford and Some MS. Additions.] by :
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Book Synopsis Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie
Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
Book Synopsis Temple Bar by : George Augustus Sala
Download or read book Temple Bar written by George Augustus Sala and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Theatrical records: or, An account of English dramatic authors, and their works. [By Robert Dodsley.] by : Robert Dodsley
Download or read book Theatrical records: or, An account of English dramatic authors, and their works. [By Robert Dodsley.] written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs, R.A. by : Frederick Boyle
Download or read book Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs, R.A. written by Frederick Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca dramatica, a catalogue of the ... dramatic library of William Barnes Rhodes ... which will be sold by auction by :
Download or read book Bibliotheca dramatica, a catalogue of the ... dramatic library of William Barnes Rhodes ... which will be sold by auction written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Nature written by James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fair Circassian, by : Samuel Croxall
Download or read book The Fair Circassian, written by Samuel Croxall and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by : Simon Tyssot de Patot
Download or read book The Travels and Adventures of James Massey written by Simon Tyssot de Patot and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: