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Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : OXFORD:300022468
Author : James Robinson Planch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112002964424
Author : James Robinson Planch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112002964440
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : 0824059905
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857735874
Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantomime, notably among them John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and W.E. Gladstone. In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that ensured the enduring popularity of the form. The secret of its success, he argues, was its continual evolution. It acted as an accurate cultural barometer of its times, directly reflecting current attitudes, beliefs and preoccupations, and it kept up a flow of instantly recognisable topical allusions to political rows, fashion fads, technological triumphs, wars and revolutions, and society scandals. Richards assesses throughout the contribution of writers, producers, designers and stars to the success of the pantomime in its golden age. This book is a treat as rich and appetizing as turkey, mince pies and plum pudding.
Author : Peter Swallow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192694911
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues—making Old Comedy new. The book examines two strands of Aristophanic reception: the political and the aesthetic. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes tied into contemporary political debate, as historians, translators and commentators, and even the burlesque writer J.R. Planché activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. But each writer's conceptualisation of Aristophanes was as different as their political outlooks. While many writers who appropriated Aristophanes for their cause were Tories, a notable outlier is Percy Shelley, whose Aristophanic drama Swellfoot the Tyrant activated Old Comedy to argue for democratic republicanism—what we would now call a left-wing political revolution. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, which developed from around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively depoliticised Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes—with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological—also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period. These strands of nineteenth-century Aristophanic reception find synthesis towards the book's conclusion. Edwardian women's receptions of Aristophanes show how activists used his plays to argue for equal educational opportunities and the right to vote. In the final chapter, Gilbert Murray and George Bernard Shaw's receptions reveal both the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes.
Author : H. Philip Bolton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780720121179
This volume, arranged alphabetically by original author, provides basic information about stage and screen productions based upon the novels of 40 women writers before 1900. Each entry includes the novel and its publication date, the published texts or dramatizations based upon the book, and the performances of the piece in live theater and film versions, including the location, dates, and playwright or screenwriter (if there was one). For some of the performances the author includes a brief annotation listing the actors and describing the production.
Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521284414
James Robinson Planché was one of the most prolific and successful of nineteenth-century playwrights. In a career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred and eighty pieces of all types, from pantomime and farce to melodrama and opera, for production at a wide range of London theatres. This book offers a representative selection of his most popular plays. It includes one melodrama - The Vampire; or The Bride of the Isles (1820), which represents the first treatment of the vampire theme on the English stage; one farce - The Garrick Fever (1839); three 'fairy' extravaganzas - Beauty and the Beast (1841), Fortunio and his Seven Gifted Servants (1843), and The Discreet Princess; or, The Three Glass Distaffs (1855); one 'classical' extravaganza - The Golden Fleece; or, Jason in Colchis and Medea in Corinth (1845); and one revue of events in contemporary London - The Camp at the Olympic (1853). The volume includes a lengthy introduction which sets the plays in the theatrical context of their time, a chronological record of Planché's life, a complete list of his plays, and a bibliography.
Author : Valerie L. Gager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052145526X
This 1996 book traces Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through theatrical, literary and artistic sources.
Author : T. F. DILLON. CROKER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033497398
Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:180131190
Author : Julia Briggs,Dennis Butts,Matthew Orville Grenby
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1840142421
Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-century chapbooks to the stories of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and from science schoolbooks to Harry Potter, these essays show how authorial talent operates within its cultural context to make a children's classic.
Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719008239
This compilation of the prefaces from the author's "English plays of the nineteenth century" (5 vols. ; London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969-1976) provides an introduction to the critical interpretations of most genres of English drama.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191090103
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.
Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262547543
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.