A Register Of English Theatrical Documents 1660 1737 1714 1737

Author : Judith Milhous,Robert D. Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015021860419

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A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737: 1660-1714 by Judith Milhous,Robert D. Hume Pdf

This significant reference work is an unprecedented attempt to compile a chronological list of all documents related to the management and regulation of the theatres in England from the reopening of the playhouses in 1660 to the Licensing Act of 1737. Each of the more than four thousand entries includes the date, the location, a descriptive title, and a quotation from or a brief description of the item plus reference to other copies or printed transcriptions. The documents are various: lawsuits and the Lord Chamberlain’s manuscripts in the Public Record Office in London; manuscripts in the British Library and in the Bodleian, Folger, Huntington, and Harvard theatre collections, as well as other repositories; printed letters and pamphlets associated with particular dates or productions; and newspaper and magazine items not related to specific performances (which are covered in The London Stage). In addition to the entries, the book includes a preface, an introduction, a list of abbreviations, five appendixes, and an exhaustive index keyed to item numbers.

Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043263

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell by Rebecca Herissone Pdf

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather, they use the modern reader's familiarity with Purcell's music as a gateway into the broader Restoration world. Topics include a reassessment of our understanding of Purcell's sources and the transmission of his music; new ways of approaching the study of his creative methods; performance practice; the multi-faceted theatre environment in which his work was focused in the last five years of his life; the importance of the political and social contexts of late seventeenth-century England; and the ways in which the performance history and reception of his music have influenced modern appreciation of the composer. The book will be essential reading for anyone studying the music and culture of the seventeenth century.

Author : Thomas McGeary
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781783277155

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Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 by Thomas McGeary Pdf

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557610

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"Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695?705 " by Kathryn Lowerre Pdf

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Author : Moira Goff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351887809

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The Incomparable Hester Santlow by Moira Goff Pdf

In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, through her dancing roles in dance dramas by John Weaver and pantomimes by John Thurmond and Roger, as well as the virtuoso dances created for her by Mr. Isaac and Anthony L'Abbé. Goff examines Santlow's fascinating personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. Santlow was unusual in making the transition from successful dancer-actress to independent and respectable widow. Goff also traces her life after retirement as her daughter's family rose from the gentry towards the aristocracy. This book will be of interest to dance and theatre historians, to women's studies scholars, and to all who are engaged with ongoing debates on the lives and careers of women on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stage.

Author : Sarah Barber,Corinna M. Peniston-Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351106559

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Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts by Sarah Barber,Corinna M. Peniston-Bird Pdf

In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis. The chapters cover 2000 years and stretch across the Americas and Europe. They are grouped into three themes, with the first four exploring aspects of movement within and around an environment: buildings, the tension between habitat and tourist landscape, cemeteries and war memorials. Three chapters look at different aspects of performance: masque and opera in which performance is (re)constructed from several media, radio and television. The final group of chapters consider objects and material culture in which both spatial placement and performance influence how they might be read as historical sources: archaeological finds and their digital management, the display of objects in heritage locations, clothing, photograph albums and scrapbooks. Supported by a range of case studies, the contributors embed lessons and methodological approaches within their chapters that can be adapted and adopted by those working with similar sources, offering students both a theoretical and practical demonstration of how to analyse sources within their contexts. Drawing out common threads to help those wishing to illuminate their own historical investigation, this book encourages a broad and inclusive approach to the physical and social contexts of historical evidence for those undertaking source analysis.

Author : Kathryn Lowerre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557627

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Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705 by Kathryn Lowerre Pdf

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Author : Andrew R. Walkling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315524191

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English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 by Andrew R. Walkling Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015072423711

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.

Author : Andrew R. Walkling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317099703

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Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688 by Andrew R. Walkling Pdf

Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of documentation survives, Walkling argues that our understanding of the distinctions between masque and opera must be premised upon a thorough knowledge of theatrical context and performance circumstances. Using extensive archival and literary evidence, detailed textual readings, rigorous tabular analysis, and meticulous collation of bibliographical and musical sources, this interdisciplinary study offers a host of new insights into a body of work that has long been of interest to musicologists, theatre historians, literary scholars and historians of Restoration court and political culture, but which has hitherto been imperfectly understood. A companion volume will explore the phenomenon of "dramatick opera" and its precursors on London’s public stages between the early 1660s and the first decade of the eighteenth century.

Author : Margaret J. M. Ezell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192537836

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The Oxford English Literary History by Margaret J. M. Ezell Pdf

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Great Britain', and an expanding English awareness of the New World as well as encounters with the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the establishment of new concepts of authorship and it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainments from musical theatrical spectaculars to contemporary comedies of manners with celebrity actors and actresses. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising and laws were changing governing censorship and taking the initial steps in the development of copyright. It was a period which produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith from John Milton's Paradise Lost and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.

Author : Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer,Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521813379

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'Pamela' in the Marketplace by Thomas Keymer,Tom Keymer,Peter Sabor Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026044714

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The Eighteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carole Levin,R. O. Bucholz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803229686

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Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England by Carole Levin,R. O. Bucholz Pdf

In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the ?normal? male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents? perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were represented in medieval and early modern England. They also give modern readers a glimpse into the early modern worldview, particularly regarding order, hierarchy, rulership, property, biology, and the relationship between the sexes. Considering topics as diverse as how Queen Elizabeth?s unmarried status affected the perception of her as a just and merciful queen to a reevaluation of ?good Queen Anne? as more than just an obese, conventional monarch, this volume encourages readers to reexamine previously held assumptions about the role of female monarchs in early modern history.

Author : Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 01633155

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Current Contents. Arts & Humanities by Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa). Pdf