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Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081221613X
Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to be.
Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317323082
In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.
Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781315477756
Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi,Anjna Chouhan,Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040129012
Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521837804
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Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1852855916
Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age and was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary. He transformed the theatre, in Britain and America, from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected and uplifting art form. This work gives an account of Irving and his impact on the Victorian theatre and life.
Author : Sandra Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349099306
An account of the English actress's view of her own rise up to social and professional prominence from 1600 to the present. Examining the actress's experience as distinct from the actor's, this book charts her influence on each age's views of women's nature and their role in society.
Author : Annie Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429619984
Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer’s taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820–1920, as part of the larger project of modernism across the artistic and cultural field, the functions of "clothing" and "costume" diverged. Onstage apparel took on a more specific semiotic task, acting as a fresh channel for the flow of information between the performer, the literary text, and the spectator. Modernizing Costume Design traces how five kinds of artists – directors, performers, writers, couturiers, and painters – made key contributions to this new model of costume design. Holt shows that by 1920, costume design shifted in status from craft to art.
Author : Máire Cross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315317939
Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social, and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of subject matter and geography, the contributors examine correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall, and Siân Reynolds.
Author : Jonathan Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134363834
Merely Players? marks a groundbreaking departure in Shakespeare studies by giving direct voice to the Shakespearean performer. It draws on three centuries worth of actors' written reflections on playing Shakespeare and brings together the dual worlds of performance and academia, providing a unique resource for the student and theatre-lover alike.
Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441181367
A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by figures in Victorian theatre.
Author : Ann Rachlin
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848768055
Edith Craig (1869-1947), illegitimate, lesbian, suffragette, was the most extraordinary contributor to British Theatre of her time. As an actor on stage and in silent movies, she was also a brilliant costume designer, costume maker, stage producer, director and fencing expert. As she worked and toured throughout the UK and USA with her mother, world famous actress Dame Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving, her memoirs throw light on that iconic theatrical partnership, illuminating in a most colourful way the magic that gripped audiences everywhere. Not only did she meet and work with other illustrious names of the day including Sarah Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Lord Tennyson, J.M. Barrie, Thomas Beecham, Richard D’Oyly Carte, Queen Alexandra, King George V, but she also lived her personal life in a ménage à trois.Edy began dictating her memoirs soon after Ellen Terry died in 1928 and revised them after the Second World War, just before she died in 1947. Now the memoirs are ready for all to read, complete with a lavish colourful collection of 64 rare photos and illustrations.Edy was a Lady is a fabulous feast of recollections from one who for so long lived happily in the shadow of her mother, but is now in the spotlight in her own right.
Author : Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan (Cultural historian)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : 9780198708735
This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.
Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351156462
Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.