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Author : John O'Keeffe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Modern Antiques, Or The Merry Mourners written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Keeffe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Modern antiques, or the merry mourners, etc written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Keeffe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Modern Antiques: Or, the Merry Mourners. In Two Acts. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, in 1789. By John O'Keeffe, Esq written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barrett Kalter
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611483794
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Modern Antiques written by Barrett Kalter and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recovery and reinvention of the past were fundamental to the conception of the modern in England during the long eighteenth century. Scholars then forged connections between linear time and empirical evidence that transformed historical consciousness. Chronologers, textual critics, and antiquaries constructed the notion of a material past, which spread through the cultures of print and consumption to a broader public, offering powerful—and for that reason, contested—ways of perceiving temporality and change, the historicity of objects, and the relation between fact and imagination. But even as these innovative ideas won acceptance, they also generated rival forms of historical meaning. The regular progression of chronological time accentuated the deviance of anachronism and ephemerality, while the opposition of unique artifacts to ubiquitous commodities exoticized things that straddled this divide. Inspired by the authentic products as well as the anomalous by-products of contemporary scholarship, writers, craftsmen, and shoppers appropriated the past to create nostalgic and ironic alternatives to their own moment. Barrett Kalter explores the history of these “modern antiques,” including Dryden’s translation of Virgil, modernizations of The Canterbury Tales, Gray’s Gothic wallpaper, and Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Though grounded in the ancient and medieval eras, these works uncannily addressed the controversies about monarchy, nationhood, commerce, and specialized knowledge that defined the present for the English eighteenth century. Bringing together literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book history, Kalter argues that the proliferation of modern antiques in the period reveals modernity’s paradoxical emergence out of encounters with the past.
Author : John Genest
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Some Account of the English Stage written by John Genest and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429873336
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.
Author : National Library of Wales
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Report to the Annual Meeting of the Court of Governors ... written by National Library of Wales and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boaden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq written by James Boaden and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Peltz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429776772
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Producing the Past written by Lucy Peltz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history. With a preface by Stephen Bann and introduced by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz, Producing the Past has contributions from Stephen Bending, Alexandrina Buchanan, Susan A. Crane, David Haycock, Maria Grazia Lolla, Heather MacLennan, Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz, Annegret Pelz, Sam Smiles and Johann Reusch.
Author : A.A. Markley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131706366X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809 written by A.A. Markley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler, Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.
Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405188103
Total Pages : 1767 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set written by Frederick Burwick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 1767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
Author : Susan Valladares
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050703
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Staging the Peninsular War written by Susan Valladares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Author : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421404915
Total Pages : 861 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-12-26 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback—the classic, monumental biography of Poe by Arthur Hobson Quinn. Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.
Author : Walley Chamberlain Oulton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Theatres of London written by Walley Chamberlain Oulton and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Keeffe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Keeffe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe, Written by Himself ... written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Boaden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble Esq. Including a History of the Stage from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period written by James Boaden and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
