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Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145291561X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Playwright as a Thinker written by Eric Bentley and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory S. Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231503655
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book A Field of Honor written by Gregory S. Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris. Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."
Author : Arthur Bingham Walkley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Dramatic Criticism written by Arthur Bingham Walkley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Feilla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016297
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution written by Cecilia Feilla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.
Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298910
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife written by Mechele Leon and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.
Author : Donald Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521250801
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789-1860 written by Donald Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as notional parameters the upheaval of the French Revolution and the events leading up to the Unification of Italy, this volume charts a period of political and social turbulence in Europe and its reflection in theatrical life. Apart from considering external factors like censorship and legal sanctions on theatrical activity, the volume examines the effects of prevailing operational conditions on the internal organization of companies, their repertoire, acting, stage presentation, playhouse architecture and the relationship with audiences. Also covered are technical advances in stage machinery, scenography and lighting, the changing position of the playwright and the continuing importance of various street entertainments, particularly in Italy, where dramatic theatre remained the poor relation of the operatic, and itinerant acting troupes still constituted the norm. The 460 documents, many of them illustrated, have been drawn from sources in Britain, France and Italy and have been annotated, and translated where appropriate.
Author : Susan Maslan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801881251
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Acts written by Susan Maslan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Appendix to the Catalogue of the Advocates Library written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Rounseville Alger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian written by William Rounseville Alger and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Rounseville Alger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387078587
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Life of Edwin Forrest; The American Tragedian, In Two Volumes written by William Rounseville Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-24 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Gregory S. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922068
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775–1793 written by Gregory S. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length, scholarly study of the Société des auteurs dramatiques (SAD), this book describes the form, the meaning, the achievements, and the failures of the first professional association for creative writers in European history. Founded by the well-known playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais in 1777 under the protection of prominent aristocrats at the court of King Louis XVI, the SAD comprised the playwrights most closely associated with the royal theater of the kingdom, the Comédie Française. Its two dozen members discussed and worked to advance both their collective interests under the royal theater regulations (which governed such issues of literary property, creative control, and remuneration) and to promote their public image as playwrights and men of letters more broadly - while at the same time competing with each other, sometimes intensely, for control over that image. Gregory Brown traces the story of the SAD from its conception in the mid-1770s through to the French Revolution, exploring first the Society's founding in 1777, then its trajectory until its dissolution at the end of 1780, and finally discusses a revival of the group during the Revolution. In each chapter, Brown analyzes the strategic efforts of Beaumarchais and his associates, to shape regulations and legislation concerning droits d'auteur (authorial remuneration and literary property) and their efforts to reshape the public status and identity of playwrights through correspondence, print and face-to-face encounters with the troupe of the Comédie Française, the theater's aristocratic supervisors at court, its lawyers and government administrators, its commercial publics, and other, authors. Brown argues against previous treatments of the SAD, which have presented it as a spontaneous, dissident challenge to constituted social and political authority under the Old Regime. He demonstrates instead how the SAD emerged from within existing lines of authority in e
Author : William D. Howarth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985916
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Beaumarchais and the Theatre written by William D. Howarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period and their legacy. Included is a discussion of the operatic adaptations: Mozart's Mariage de Figaro and Rossini's Le Barbier de Seville. The author also provides analyses of sketches and fragments only recently re-discovered. Beaumarchais and the Theatre is a comprehensive and much needed study of one of the most significant playwrights of the turbulent eighteenth century. It is invaluable reading for students of theatre history.
Author : Katherine Brown Downey
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826416216
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Perverse Midrash written by Katherine Brown Downey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-11-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downey uses Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul to discuss censorship of biblical drama from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century.
Author : Konstantin Miklashevskiĭ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book La Commedia Dell'arte written by Konstantin Miklashevskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
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 : Louise Pelletier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134159293
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Architecture in Words written by Louise Pelletier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative title provides an in-depth interdisciplinary study of the influence of theatre and fiction in defining character in eighteenth century architecture, pushing current architects to rediscover the communicative aspects of their work.
