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Author : George Winchester Stone
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080930743X
Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
Author : George Henry Nettleton,Arthur Ellicott Case
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English drama
ISBN : LCCN:75002443
Author : George H. Nettleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631231338
Author : John Dryden,Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781616401399
Author names not noted above: Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Lord Byron. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XVIII features six of the greatest plays of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century England writers: [ All for Love, the Shakespearean tragedy by JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) [ The School for Scandal, the comedy of manners by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816) [ She Stoops to Conquer, the satire by OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774) [ The Cenci, the controversial verse drama by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) [ A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, the tragedy by ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) [ Manfred, the supernatural drama by LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Judith Roof
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443815802
The essays in Talking Drama ask what the relation is between drama and its critics. In so far as we conceive of drama and theatre as arising from and providing some sense of social ritual and comment, drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the foibles and problems of human existence as well as the general hubris and errors of society. Plays both constitute criticism--of society, of ideas, of other plays--and deploy such self-critical gambits as plays within plays, characters who watch other characters, characters feigning roles and personalities, and even the overt inclusion of characters who are critics. Plays, thus, comment both on themselves and on the art of theatre generally. At the same time, drama implies other kinds of critics in the guise of the audience, reviewers, and those who might participate in its ideas. Just as plays produce the seeds of their own critique, so they also spur critique of their aesthetics, the artistry of their performance, and the ideas and conflicts they illustrate. Critics who review play performances are as much an intrinsic part of theatrical events as the audience and the plays themselves.
Author : Geoffrey S. Proehl
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Brothers in literature
ISBN : 0838635474
This study focuses on the representation of the family in American drama, in particular, on various uses and conventions of the figure of the prodigal husband or son. It considers the lineage and function of this figure from the writings of Augustine, medieval iconography, Renaissance prodigal son plays, and temperance melodramas to such contemporary manifestations as television talk shows, the Recovery Movement, and plays by contemporary writers including Spalding Gray, Ntozake Shange, and Cherrie Moraga.
Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015020689256
Author : John Henry Ottemiller,Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810877207
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Author : Murray Roston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400860913
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture. "A sumptuous book. . . . Clearly and gracefully written and cogently argued, Roston's admirable achievement is of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics. . . . Outstanding."--Choice Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jayne Lewis,Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291675
Which John Dryden should be brought into the twenty-first-century college classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? The first of the moderns? The ambivalent laureate? The sidelined convert to Rome? The literary theorist? The translator? The playwright? The poet? This volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature addresses the tensions, contradictions, and versatility of a writer who, in the words of Samuel Johnson, "found [English poetry] brick, and left it marble," who was, in the words of Walter Scott, "one of the greatest of our masters." Part 1, "Materials," offers a guide to the teaching editions of Dryden's work and a discussion of the background resources, from biographies and literary criticism to social, cultural, political, and art histories. In part 2, "Approaches," essays describe different pedagogical entries into Dryden and his time. These approaches cover subjects as various as genre, adaptation, literary rivalry, musical setting, and political and religious poetry in classroom situations that range from the traditional survey to learning through performance.
Author : John Dryden,Oliver Goldsmith,Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1379222656
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Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP7Z5
Author : Marcie Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139434888
In Gender, Theatre and the Origins of Criticism, Marcie Frank explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time. Frank examines the pre-eminence of gender, sexuality and the theatre in Dryden's critical texts that are predominantly rewritings of the work of his own literary precursors - Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and Milton. She proposes that Dryden develops a native literary tradition that is passed on as an inheritance to his heirs - Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley - as well as their male contemporaries. Frank describes the development of criticism in the transition from a court-sponsored theatrical culture to one oriented toward a consuming public, with very different attitudes to gender and sexuality. This study also sets out to trace the historical origins of certain aspects of current criticism - the practices of paraphrase, critical self-consciousness and performativity.