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Author : William Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theatrical 'world'. written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1894-1897 contain a synopsis of playbills of the year by Henry George Hibbert.
Author : William Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Theatrical 'world' of 1893-1897 written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Theatrical 'World' of 1896 written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Theatrical 'world' of 1896 written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Woodfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389433
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914 written by James Woodfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular stylings of Irving and Beerbohm Tree to the masking and statuesque styles of Isadora Duncan and the inner realism of Stanislavsky. This book traces the activities of the leading figures in the English theatre, notably William Archer who introduced Ibsen to this country and who became one of the main promoters of the idea of a National Theatre. Other personalities discussed include Harley Granville Barker, particularly his association with Shaw at the Court Theatre and his part in campaigns against censorship and for changes in the staging of Shakespeare, and Edward Gordon Craig, whose rebellion against the Victorian theatre took and anti-realist direction. This is a stimulating account of the background to the modern English theatre which can only increase appreciation of its standard and variety.
Author : J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230250890
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521453752
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (537 download)
Download or read book The Edwardian Theatre written by Michael R. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude towards the Edwardians and their world, the essays in this collection take as their provinence broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing upon the economics of theatre management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical comedy, variety theatre, and the cinema.
Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853457
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Sir Henry Irving written by Jeffrey Richards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age. He transformed the theater in Britain and America from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected art form. His admirers ranged from Queen Victoria to working men and housewives. He was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary and in 1895 became the first actor to receive a knighthood. Published to mark the centenary of Irving’s death, this book gives an account not only of Irving himself and of his career, but also of his whole impact on the Victorian Theatre and on Victorian culture.
Author : Charles Mitchell
Publisher : Orange Grove Texts Plus
ISBN 13 : 9781616101664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Theatrical Worlds (Beta Version) written by Charles Mitchell and published by Orange Grove Texts Plus. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well." -- Open Textbook Library.
Author : Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923607
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean written by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title features a wonderfully evocative collection of portraits of some of the greatest stars of 20th century British theatre. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theatre. His work includes some of the most memorable theatre productions of the Old Vic Company and what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet from Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals. He was a favourite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Lourence Olivier, and Edith Evans. He photographed countless plays starring the likes of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention young stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. This sumptuously illustrated volume features 120 evocative images - reproduced from McBean's original negatives - of some the greatest stars of Twentieth-century British theatre.
Author : Leslie Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316563
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Sex, Suffrage and the Stage written by Leslie Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement. Hill's approachable overview explores some of the pivotal ways in which theatre makers both engaged with and influenced feminist discourse on topics such as sexual agency, reproductive rights, marriage equality, financial independence and suffrage. Clear and concise, this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies taking courses on Women in Theatre and Performance, Staging Feminism, Early Feminist Theatre, Theatre and Suffrage, Gender and Theatre, Political Theatre and Performance Historiography. This text will also appeal to scholars, lecturers, and Literature students.
Author : Narve Fulsås
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110718777X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama written by Narve Fulsås and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the processes by which Ibsen's drama, while firmly rooted in his Scandinavian origins, was appropriated by other European traditions.
Author : K. Newey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230276512
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre written by K. Newey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century.
Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441124039
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Great Shakespeareans Set I written by Peter Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Author : Jane W. Stedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198161745
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (617 download)
Download or read book W.S. Gilbert written by Jane W. Stedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.
Author : Marty Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136740546
Total Pages : 266 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 266 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 : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922335
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, influential contributions to the debate on child actors, and the friendship of leading players, especially Ellen Terry. As well as being a key to his complex and enigmatic personality, Carroll's interest in the theatre provides a vivid account of a remarkable era on the stage that encompassed Charles Kean's Shakespeare revivals, the comic genius of Frederick Robson, the heyday of pantomime, Gilbert and Sullivan, opera bouffe, the Terry sisters, Henry Irving, and favourite playwrights Tom Taylor, H. A. Jones, and J. M. Barrie. With attention to the complex motives that compelled Carroll to attend stage performances, Foulkes examines the incomparable record of over forty years as a playgoer that Carroll left for posterity.
