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Author : Theophilus Cibber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Mr. T......... C....., Comedian written by Theophilus Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophilus Cibber
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Mr. T......... C..... i.e. Theophilus Cibber , comedian. Being a proper sequel to the Apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian. With an historical view of the stage to the present year. Supposed to be written by himself, etc. A satire written by Theophilus Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198185109
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Contributions to The Champion and Related Writings written by Henry Fielding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume completes the edition's coverage of Henry Fielding's journalism, which occupied a far greater part of his time than has been traditionally acknowledged. His contributions to The Champion are not only among his most energetic and intriguing works in the genre; they also have a densepolitical background, of interest to historians studying the interface between journalism and politicians of the time, as well as the role of newspaper publishers. Walpole figures hugely, and the extent to which Fielding hints at the minister's life and activities is remarkable.Much of the volume's material has never been reprinted before. Explanatory annotations are full, as the characteristically allusive and topical nature of Fielding's writing requires. Appendices provide an analytical textual apparatus, and the editorial introductions emphasize matters such as genesisand composition, circumstances of publication, in addition to immediate biographical, literary, and historical backgrounds.
Author : John Cole (bookseller.)
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A catalogue of old books, with specimens now on sale written by John Cole (bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert William Lowe
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Robert William Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher : Boston : The Trustees
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Field (dramatic collector.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca histrionica, a catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of mr. John Field ... which will be sold by auction written by John Field (dramatic collector.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John FIELD (Collector of Dramatic Literature.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Histrionica. A catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of Mr. J. Field ... which will be sold by auction, etc. [With the prices in MS.] written by John FIELD (Collector of Dramatic Literature.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Edward Baruth
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067235
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Introducing Charlotte Charke written by Philip Edward Baruth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious troublemaker Charlotte Charke worked as a novelist, autobiographer, and strolling actress. But it was as a cross-dresser -- both on stage and off -- that she scandalized eighteenth-century England. Known as Mr. Charles Brown, she lived openly with another woman for nearly a decade.Charke, daughter of Colley Cibber, the English playwright and poet laureate (1740), lived a life of masquerade. Her autobiography is a fascinating document of low- and middle-class life in the 1700s and is explored in some detail by Philip E. Baruth. Other contributors to this collection look at Charke, her famous family, and her place within stage and cross-dressing traditions. Felicity A. Nussbaum provides a thought-provoking afterword on the current state of Charke criticism.
Author : Kalman A. Burnim
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306251
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)
Download or read book David Garrick, Director written by Kalman A. Burnim and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations." For twenty-nine years (1747-1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
Author : Kristina Straub
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691258899
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Sexual Suspects written by Kristina Straub and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the suspect sexuality of actors and actresses shaped early modern debates about gender and sexual identity From the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labeled effeminate or even as “sodomites,” and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. Kristina Straub argues that this depiction of players greatly shaped public debates about what made women feminine and men masculine. Considering a wide range of literature by or about players—pamphlets, newspaper reports, theatrical histories, and biographies as well as the public correspondence between Alexander Pope and the famed actor Colley Cibber—she examines the formation of gender roles and sexual identities during a period crucial to modern thinking on these issues. Drawing from feminist-materialist and gay and lesbian theories and historiographies, Sexual Suspects analyzes the complex development of spectacle and spectatorship as gendered concepts. She reveals how national, racial, and class differences contributed to the subjection of players as professional spectacles and how images of race, class, and gender combined to create divisions between “normal” and “deviant” sexuality.
Author : Helene Koon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318522X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Colley Cibber written by Helene Koon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
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Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1058 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ... written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Baines
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444390082
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789 written by Paul Baines and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
