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Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1146396938
Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405176105
This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052158812X
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author : Cynthia Wall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470757499
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.
Author : Derek Hughes,Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521527201
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author : Katherine M. Quinsey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813159997
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk,J. Douglas Canfield
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337890
Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.
Author : Andrew R. Walkling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315524207
English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Andrew Walkling argues that, while the musical elements of this form are crucial to its definition and history, the origins of the genre lie principally in a tradition of spectacular stagecraft that first manifested itself in England in the mid-1660s as part of a hitherto unidentified dramatic sub-genre, to which Walkling gives the name "spectacle-tragedy". Armed with this new understanding, the book explores a number of historical and interpretive issues, including the physical and rhetorical configurations of performative spectacle, the administrative maneuverings of the two "patent" theatre companies, the construction and deployment of the technologically advanced Dorset Garden Theatre in 1670–71, the critical response to generic, technical, and ideological developments in Restoration drama, and the shifting balance between machine spectacle and song-and-dance entertainment throughout the later decades of the seventeenth century, including in the dramatick operas of Henry Purcell. This study combines the materials and methodologies of music history, theatre history, literary studies, and bibliography to fashion an entirely new approach to the history of spectacular and musical drama on the English Restoration stage. This book serves as a companion to the Routledge publication Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 (2017).
Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037470666
This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject.
Author : Nancy Klein Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521416221
Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque, this book accounts for the shift in genre during the decade following the return of Charles II.
Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015024769187
Simon Callow leads a two-day class on Restoration comedy with a group of British actors, including Gail McFarlane, Harry Meacher, Pamela Moiseiwitsch and Michael Stroud. It deals with The relapse by John Vanbrugh and shows practical acting techniques.
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521779421
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870913
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Author : Kristina Straub,Misty G Anderson,Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1547 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317426523
The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660–1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700–1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760–1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period’s dramatic landscape—from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle—The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike.
Author : Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521733083
A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.