Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download A Biographical Dictionary Of Actors Volume 3 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Biographical Dictionary Of Actors Volume 3 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306923
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306930
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809309184
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.
Author : Ann R Hawkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000743764
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II written by Ann R Hawkins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809311309
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (113 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & 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 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040128793
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 3 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308330
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809309191
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 discusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.
Author : Barbara White
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493884
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Courtesans written by Barbara White and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308323
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
Author : Ann R Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000748537
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II vol 6 written by Ann R Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Author : Markman Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351568655
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 3 " written by Markman Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.
Author : Bertrand A Goldgar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040235883
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Grub Street Journal, 1730-33 Vol 3 written by Bertrand A Goldgar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly journal in England of its period. The first four years are reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general introduction and comprehensive annotation.
Author : Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136746412
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs written by Sidney Jackson Jowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.
Author : Michael Caines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199642389
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Michael Caines and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors, critics, painters, and Enlightenment philosophers read and responded to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and how those plays and poems changed their lives.
Author : Rachel Cowgill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835673
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Art and Ideology in European Opera written by Rachel Cowgill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings emerged, often quite remote from those intended by the original collaborators; but tracing this ideological dimension in a work's creation and reception enables us to understand its cultural and political role more clearly - sometimes conflicting with its status as art and sometimes enhancing it. This collection is a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovative studies of Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz, among many others. Colleagues, associates and former students pay tribute to his work with essays highlighting the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness. British opera is represented by studies of Grabu, Purcell, Dibdin, Holst, Stanford and Britten, but the collection sustains a truly European perspective rounded out with essays on French opera funding, Bizet, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Puccini, Janacek, Nielsen, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schreker. Several works receive some of their first extended discussion in English. RACHEL COWGILL is Professor of Musicology at Liverpool Hope University. DAVID COOPER is Professor of Music and Technology at the University of Leeds. CLIVE BROWN is Professor of Applied Musicology at the University of Leeds. Contributors: MARY K. HUNTER, CLIVE BROWN, PETER FRANKLIN, RALPH LOCKE, DOMINGOS DE MASCARENHAS, DAVID CHARLTON, KATHARINE ELLIS, BRYAN WHITE, PETER HOLMAN, RACHEL COWGILL, ROBERTA MONTEMORRA MARVIN, DAVID COOPER, RICHARD GREENE, J.P.E. HARPER-SCOTT, DANIEL GRIMLEY, STEPHEN MUIR, JOHN TYRRELL.
