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Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850 1910
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Book Synopsis Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 by : Michael R. Booth
Download or read book Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 written by Michael R. Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably consistent style, it was used for a variety of dramatic forms, although surrounded by critical controversy. The book considers the theories and practice of spectacle production as well as the cultural and artistic movements that created the favourable conditions in which spectacle could dominate such large areas of theatre for so many years. It also discusses the growth of spectacle and the taste of the public for it, examining the influence of painting, archaeology, history, and the trend towards realism in stage production. An explanation of the working of spectacle in Shakespeare, pantomime and melodrama is followed by detailed reconstructions of the spectacle productions of Irving’s Faust and Beerbohm Tree’s King Henry VIII.
Book Synopsis Bodies in Dissent by : Daphne Brooks
Download or read book Bodies in Dissent written by Daphne Brooks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and identity in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arican-American creative work.
Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 by : Tetsuo Kishi
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Book Synopsis Modern Murders by : Lee Michael-Berger
Download or read book Modern Murders written by Lee Michael-Berger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.
Book Synopsis Sensation Drama, 1860-1880 by : Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Download or read book Sensation Drama, 1860-1880 written by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1 by : Tetsuo Kishi
Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 1 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama by : Carolyn Williams
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama written by Carolyn Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Book Synopsis Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima by : Gillian M Rodger
Download or read book Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima written by Gillian M Rodger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. As some in the working class moved up into the middling classes, they took their affinity for variety with them, transforming and broadening middle-class values. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima places the saloon keepers, managers, male impersonators, minstrels, acrobats, singers, and dancers of the variety era within economic and social contexts by examining the business models of variety shows and their primarily white, working-class urban audiences. Rodger traces the transformation of variety from sexualized entertainment to more family-friendly fare, a domestication that mirrored efforts to regulate the industry, as well as the adoption of aspects of middle-class culture and values by the shows' performers, managers, and consumers.
Book Synopsis Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs by : Sidney Jackson Jowers
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.
Book Synopsis The Orient on the Victorian Stage by : Edward Ziter
Download or read book The Orient on the Victorian Stage written by Edward Ziter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of the Middle East and the Orient on writing and performance in nineteenth-century British theatre.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre by : John Russell Brown
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre written by John Russell Brown and published by Oxford Illustrated History. This book was released on 2001 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Download or read book Ruskin and Gender written by Dinah Birch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.
Book Synopsis Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 by : Nicholas Daly
Download or read book Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 written by Nicholas Daly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of moderinism, literature and film.
Book Synopsis English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914 by : James Woodfield
Download or read book English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914 written by James Woodfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular stylings of Irving and Beerbohm Tree to the masking and statuesque styles of Isadora Duncan and the inner realism of Stanislavsky. This book traces the activities of the leading figures in the English theatre, notably William Archer who introduced Ibsen to this country and who became one of the main promoters of the idea of a National Theatre. Other personalities discussed include Harley Granville Barker, particularly his association with Shaw at the Court Theatre and his part in campaigns against censorship and for changes in the staging of Shakespeare, and Edward Gordon Craig, whose rebellion against the Victorian theatre took and anti-realist direction. This is a stimulating account of the background to the modern English theatre which can only increase appreciation of its standard and variety.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Pantomime by : Jill Alexandra Sullivan
Download or read book The Politics of the Pantomime written by Jill Alexandra Sullivan and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the variety and independence of pantomime in the provinces, especially Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Explores official and local censorship and the relationships between local theaters, managers, authors and audiences.
Book Synopsis Adapting to the Stage by : Chris Greenwood
Download or read book Adapting to the Stage written by Chris Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: The American novelist and playwright, Henry James, was drawn to the theatre and the shifting conventions of drama throughout his writing career. This study demonstrates that from the 1890s onwards James concentrated on adapting his novels and stories to and from the stage, and increasingly employed metaphors that spoke of novel-writing in terms of playwriting. Christopher Greenwood argues that these metaphors helped James to conceive himself as an artist who composed characters dramatically and visually, and in doing so sets his novels significantly apart from those of his contemporaries. In the introduction to the first part of the book, Greenwood examines James's career within the context of contemporary European and North American theatre, providing an appraisal of what James gained from contemporary theatre, his position in that milieu, and what he brought to it. Part 2 of the book focuses on two novels: "The Other House" and "The Spoils of Poynton", both of which illustrate the ways in which James used the mechanism of contemporary theatre to communicate a character's personality. Discussion of these two works is used to throw light on similar concerns that develop in James's later writing.
Book Synopsis Theatre, Performance and Technology by : Christopher Baugh
Download or read book Theatre, Performance and Technology written by Christopher Baugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice. Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
