Closet Stages

Author : Catherine B. Burroughs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512801019

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Closet Stages by Catherine B. Burroughs Pdf

Closet Stages examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in which women framed their relationship to the theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351606936

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Closet Drama by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.

Author : Marta Straznicky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521841240

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Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700 by Marta Straznicky Pdf

Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern women's closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather than public performance. She reveals that such works were part of an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture, which was understood as intellectually superior to and politically more radical than commercial drama. Elizabeth Cary, Jane Lumley, Anne Finch and Margaret Cavendish wrote their plays in this conjunction of the public and the private at a time when male playwrights dominated the theatres. In her astute readings of the texts, their contexts and their physical appearance in print or manuscript, Straznicky has produced many fresh insights into the place of women's closet plays both in the history of women's writing and in the history of English drama.

Author : Catherine B. Burroughs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812233933

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Closet Stages by Catherine B. Burroughs Pdf

Examines theory produced by women playwrights, actresses, and spectators of the middle and upper classes, as expressed in journals, letters, and play prefaces. Shows how their concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of the theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between closet and stage. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317319511

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The Gothic Novel and the Stage by Francesca Saggini Pdf

In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.

Author : Sarah Burdett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031154744

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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 by Sarah Burdett Pdf

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.

Author : Lilla Maria Crisafulli,Keir Elam
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0754655776

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Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama by Lilla Maria Crisafulli,Keir Elam Pdf

Bringing together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, this collection makes a crucial intervention in the reclamation of women's theatrical activities during the Romantic period. As they examine key figures like Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Vestris, and Jane Scott, the contributors take up topics such as women's history plays, ethics and sexuality, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers.

Author : Mimi Yiu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810167735

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Architectural Involutions by Mimi Yiu Pdf

Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. The book launches from a matrix of related “platforms”—a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen’s sketches—to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas. Combining theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public. Highly praised for its lucid writing, comprehensive supplementary material, and engaging tone, Architectural Involutions was the winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.

Author : James Robert Allard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754658910

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Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body by James Robert Allard Pdf

James Allard's book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the stunning historical moment that witnessed the emergence of Romantic literature alongside the professionalization of medical practice. His central subject is the Poet-Physician, a hybrid figure in the works of the medically trained Keats, Thelwall, and Beddoes, who embodies the struggles over discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.

Author : Angela Escott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317323471

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The Celebrated Hannah Cowley by Angela Escott Pdf

Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.

Author : Karen Quigley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350055476

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Performing the Unstageable by Karen Quigley Pdf

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.

Author : Charles H. Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086695046

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Spencer's Universal Stage by Charles H. Spencer Pdf

Author : Sophie Volpp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174355

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Worldly Stage by Sophie Volpp Pdf

"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide’s play The Male Queen (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age.Worldly Stage arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated."

Author : Drummond Bone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521786762

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The Cambridge Companion to Byron by Drummond Bone Pdf

Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112754747

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Nineteenth Century Theatre by Anonim Pdf