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Author : John Genest
Publisher : Bath : H.E. Carrington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Some Account of the English Stage written by John Genest and published by Bath : H.E. Carrington. This book was released on 1832 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Genest
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Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 written by John Genest and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennie Batchelor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543825
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Women's Writing, 1660-1830 written by Jennie Batchelor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a Postscript by Cora Kaplan.
Author : Diederik Habbema
Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book An Appreciation of Colley Cibber, Actor and Dramatist written by Diederik Habbema and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1928 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah C. Payne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319465147
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play written by Deborah C. Payne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume’s knowledge of theatre history permits a fresh take on the forgery question as well as the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Diana Solomon’s understanding of eighteenth-century rape culture and Jean I. Marsden’s command of contemporary adaptation practices both emphasise the play’s immediate social and theatrical contexts. And, finally, Deborah C. Payne’s familiarity with the eighteenth-century stage allows for a reconsideration of Double Falsehood as integral to a debate between Theobald, Alexander Pope, and John Gay over the future of the English drama.
Author : William Lowndes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382102846
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Lowndes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521662246
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Women in British Romantic Theatre written by Catherine Burroughs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645422712
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Study Guide to The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, without a doubt the most popular drama written during the hundred years between 1700 and 1800. As a comedy of the Restoration period of British drama, the humor in The Beggar’s Opera serves as a medium for carrying the author's meaning - social satire - which is applicable in all countries at all times. Moreover, the basis of the play's success rests on three factors: its artistic merit; its originality (this is in part measured by the number of later dramas which clearly display the influence of its innovations); and its pervasive humor. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Gay’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : Alexandre Beljame
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415176101
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744 written by Alexandre Beljame and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mrs. Cooper (Elizabeth)
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615451
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Rival Widows, Or, Fair Libertine (1735) written by Mrs. Cooper (Elizabeth) and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a glowing, joyous young Widow, the storyline regenders standard expectations about desire, marriage, libertinism and sentiment. The play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century theatre. In an original and extensive introduction, Tiffany Potter presents cultural and historical information that highlights the scholarly implications of this newly available play. She offers a brief biographical sketch of the playwright; a summary of sources for specific elements of the play; an overview of the theatrical climate of the time (with particular focus on the conditions leading to the Licensing Act of 1737); a discussion of the place of women in eighteenth-century society; a summary of symbiotic cultural discourses of libertinism and sensibility in the early eighteenth century; and a discussion of the general cultural significance of Cooper's demonstration of the malleability of prescriptive gender roles. Further value is added to this edition through its appendices, which reproduce documents relating to the playwright Elizabeth Cooper and to the Licensing Act of 1737 (including the text of the Act itself).
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 177048227X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Rover - Second Edition written by Aphra Behn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-02-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly Aphra Behn—the first woman professional writer—is also regarded as one of the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most accomplished play, is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it and the sexual intrigue an unsettling depth. As Anne Russell points out in her introduction to this edition, there are three options for women in the society represented in The Rover: marriage, the convent, or prostitution. In this marriage economy the witty and pragmatic virgin Hellena learns how to survive, while the prostitute Angellica Bianca can retain her autonomy only so long as she remains free from romantic love. It seems that in this world women can only be free by the anonymity of disguise—yet the mask is also the mark of the prostitute. And, paradoxically, disguise is the device that in many ways drives the plot towards marriage. Enormously popular through the eighteenth century, The Rover is now once again widely performed. Filled with the play of ideas, it is one of the most amusing, entertaining—and unsettling—of comedies.
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226309231
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Revivals written by Wendy Griswold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Revivals examines patterns in the London revivals of two English Renaissance theatre genres over the past four centuries. Griswold's focus on revenge tragedies and city comedies illuminates the ongoing interaction between society and its cultural products. No cultural object is ever created anew, she argues, but is instead constructed from existing cultural genres and conventions, the visions and professional needs of the artist, and the interests of an audience. Thus, every "new play" is in part a renaissance and every "revival" is in part an entirely new cultural object.
Author : Elaine M. McGirr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137027193
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Partial Histories written by Elaine M. McGirr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber ‘everybody knows’ has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the ‘nation’s poet’ and canonised Cibber’s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history’s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women’s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bête noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies.
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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Campbell
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
