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Author : Bridget Orr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108499712
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.
Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135451
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0367580403
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429873362
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment, tracing a movement from the outdoor and fringe to the heart of the social world. The Illustrated History acts as an accessible, flexible basis for students of the theatre, and for pure fans of British theatre history there could be no better starting point.
Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498142
Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.
Author : Jane Milling,Joseph Walter Donohue (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521650687
Volume Two begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theater. It follows the far-reaching development of the form over more than two centuries to 1895.
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1032094060
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people, and ethnic minorities, as well as the regional theatres of Wales and Scotland. Highly-illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props.
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Theater
ISBN : 036758039X
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521455901
A major collection of tracts from the British utopian tradition.
Author : Dan Poston
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813950419
The name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison’s writings "contributed more to the improvement of the minds of the British nation, and polishing their manner, than those of any other English pen whatever." While his influence lives on in the sound and style of English today, the fame of this literary role model has faded from popular awareness. The Addisonian spirit, which ushered in an exceptional era of domestic peace in Britain and provided inspiration for the French and American Revolutions, coded many of the constitutional, political, and social agreements we continue to live with today. This book, the first comprehensive monograph of Addison in half a century, considers Addison’s contribution through an in-depth exploration of his writings, political work, social life, and theatrical stagings.
Author : Pannill Camp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107437407
In the late eighteenth century, a movement to transform France's theatre architecture united the nation. Playwrights, philosophers, and powerful agents including King Louis XV rejected the modified structures that had housed the plays of Racine and Molière, and debated which playhouse form should support the future of French stagecraft. In The First Frame, Pannill Camp argues that these reforms helped to lay down the theoretical and practical foundations of modern theatre space. Examining dramatic theory, architecture, and philosophy, Camp explores how architects, dramatists, and spectators began to see theatre and scientific experimentation as parallel enterprises. During this period of modernisation, physicists began to cite dramatic theory and adopt theatrical staging techniques, while playwrights sought to reveal observable truths of human nature. Camp goes on to show that these reforms had consequences for the way we understand both modern theatrical aesthetics and the production of scientific knowledge in the present day.
Author : James Harriman-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108835497
Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139448185
Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.
Author : Julia Swindells,David Francis Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199600304
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides a comprehensive guide to theatre of the Georgian era across the range of dramatic forms.
Author : M. Aragay,E. Monforte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137297570
This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive critical examination of the intersections between contemporary ethical thought and post-1989 British playwriting. Its coverage of a large number of plays and playwrights, international range of contributors and original argumentation make it a key point of reference for students and researchers.
