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Download or read book Thomas Betterton written by David Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death.
Book Synopsis Thomas Betterton by : Robert William Lowe
Download or read book Thomas Betterton written by Robert William Lowe and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1891 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ... by : Thomas Betterton
Download or read book The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ... written by Thomas Betterton and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “Their Majesties' Servants.” Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edward Kean. Actors-Authors-Audiences by : John Doran
Download or read book “Their Majesties' Servants.” Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edward Kean. Actors-Authors-Audiences written by John Doran and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton by : Robert William Lowe
Download or read book The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton written by Robert William Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thomas Betterton, Dramatist by : Frederick Franklin Seely
Download or read book Thomas Betterton, Dramatist written by Frederick Franklin Seely and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton by : Charles Gildon
Download or read book The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton written by Charles Gildon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally compiled and published in 1970, this volume contains the full text of The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, written in 1710. For Charles Gildon, the text is little more than a skeleton upon which, as a dramatic critic, he might drape a full consideration of ‘the action and utterance of the stage,’ and so, the technique of acting and theatrical oratory.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ... by : Thomas Betterton
Download or read book The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ... written by Thomas Betterton and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thomas Betterton by : Robert William Lowe
Download or read book Thomas Betterton written by Robert William Lowe and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1891 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The life and times of ... Thomas Betterton, by the author and editor of the lives of 'Mrs. Abingdon', etc by :
Download or read book The life and times of ... Thomas Betterton, by the author and editor of the lives of 'Mrs. Abingdon', etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden. Although most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of an anonymous Miller's Tale (1791) with a thoughtful preface justifying the tale's overt sexuality published just as William Lipscomb was completing his 1795 edition that, in its preface, justifies exclusion from the pilgrimage of the notorious tales of Miller and Reeve. Such contrasting attitudes illustrate the dangers of generalisation about the usual reception or interpretation of Chaucer during this or any other socio-historic period; instead, the collection provides an untapped reservoir of material with which to investigate anew the rich complexity of his poetry and its enduring appeal. BETSY BOWDEN is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Book Synopsis “The” Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton by : Charles Gildon
Download or read book “The” Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton written by Charles Gildon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Julius Caesar on Stage in England and America, 1599-1973 by : John Ripley
Download or read book Julius Caesar on Stage in England and America, 1599-1973 written by John Ripley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-02-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Ripley, in this 1980 study of Julius Caesar, offers one of the most detailed stage histories ever attempted, focusing upon aspects both of English and American staging from 1599 to 1973. His primary sources include promptbooks and groundplans, letters, diaries and reviews. He approaches the play from four different angles: he examines the texts used in all major productions, and makes valuable deductions about the taste and sensibility of an age from cuts, alterations, additions and redistribution of parts. He explains in detail the staging of the play at various points in time, and demonstrates how sets and costumes, bits of business, handling of crowd scenes and lighting affected its business. He reconstructs performances of the four main roles by the greater and lesser lights of each period. Finally, he comments on the way in which the theories of critics and, in modern times, directors' ideas have influenced understanding of the play.
Book Synopsis The Ornament of Action by : Peter Holland
Download or read book The Ornament of Action written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-04-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Holland brings together the disciplines of theatre history and literary criticism in a close study of the staging of plays in the Restoration.
Book Synopsis The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688 by : Andrew R. Walkling
Download or read book Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688 written by Andrew R. Walkling and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of documentation survives, Walkling argues that our understanding of the distinctions between masque and opera must be premised upon a thorough knowledge of theatrical context and performance circumstances. Using extensive archival and literary evidence, detailed textual readings, rigorous tabular analysis, and meticulous collation of bibliographical and musical sources, this interdisciplinary study offers a host of new insights into a body of work that has long been of interest to musicologists, theatre historians, literary scholars and historians of Restoration court and political culture, but which has hitherto been imperfectly understood. A companion volume will explore the phenomenon of "dramatick opera" and its precursors on London’s public stages between the early 1660s and the first decade of the eighteenth century.
