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Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean

Peter Holland
Garrick Kemble Siddons Kean Book PDF

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538994

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Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean by Peter Holland Pdf

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean

Peter Holland
Garrick Kemble Siddons Kean Book PDF

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441162960

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Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean by Peter Holland Pdf

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Great Shakespeareans Set II

Adrian Poole,Peter Holland
Great Shakespeareans Set II Book PDF

Author : Adrian Poole,Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441184481

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Great Shakespeareans Set II by Adrian Poole,Peter Holland Pdf

The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Michael Caines
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Book PDF

Author : Michael Caines
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191642937

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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century by Michael Caines Pdf

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. This book considers the impact and influence of Shakespeare on writing of the eighteenth century, and also how eighteenth-century Shakespeare scholarship influenced how we read Shakespeare today. The most influential English actor of the eighteenth century, David Garrick, could hail Shakespeare as 'the god of our idolatry', yet perform an adaptation of King Lear with a happy ending, add a dying speech to Macbeth, and remove the puns from Romeo and Juliet. Garrick's friend Samuel Johnson thought of Shakespeare as 'above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature'. Voltaire thought he was a sublime genius without taste. The Bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, meanwhile, could be found arguing with Johnson's biographer James Boswell over whether Shakespeare or Milton was the greater poet. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century traces the course of a many-faceted metamorphosis. Drawing on fresh research as well as the most recent scholarship in the field, it argues that the story of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century has become a significant 'subplot' in later scholarship, made up of great debates about how to read Shakespeare and how to rank him among the great English writers, how to perform his plays and how to edit the texts of those plays. This book surveys the critical and creative responses of actors and audiences, literary critics and textual editors, painters and philosophes to Shakespeare's works, while also suggesting how the Shakespeare of the theatre influenced the Shakespeare of the study, and how other, less straightforward interactions combined to bring about this sea-change in English cultural life. It speaks of the crucial role of Shakespeare in eighteenth-century culture, and the importance of that culture's absorption of Shakespeare for subsequent generations. This is a book about what the eighteenth century did to Shakespeare - and vice versa.

Shakespeare and Authority

Katie Halsey,Angus Vine
Shakespeare and Authority Book PDF

Author : Katie Halsey,Angus Vine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137578532

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Shakespeare and Authority by Katie Halsey,Angus Vine Pdf

This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that ‘authorities’ and ‘resources’ are more appropriate terms. Building on this conceptual framework, the remainder of this section explores linguistic and discursive authority more broadly. The second section, Shakespearean Authority, considers the construction, performance and questioning of authority in Shakespeare’s plays. Essays here range from examinations of monarchical authority to discussions of household authority, literary authority and linguistic ownership. The final part, Shakespeare as Authority, then traces the increasing establishment of Shakespeare as an authority from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in a series of essays that explore Shakespearean authority for editors, actors, critics, authors, readers and audiences. The volume concludes with two essays that reassess Shakespeare as an authority for visual culture – in the cinema and in contemporary art.

Representing Shakespearean Tragedy

Reiko Oya
Representing Shakespearean Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Reiko Oya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521181402

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Representing Shakespearean Tragedy by Reiko Oya Pdf

Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the time - David Garrick, John Philip Kemble and his sister Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean - and their close circle of friends. The book begins by analysing the tragic emotion that Garrick conveyed through his performance of King Lear, and the responses to it from such critics as Samuel Johnson and Elizabeth Montagu. The second chapter examines the concept of sublimity in Kemble and Siddons' interpretations of Macbeth. The final chapter studies the disparity between the literary and the theatrical Hamlet in Kean's impersonation and William Hazlitt's response to it. With subjects ranging from Shakespearean promptbooks to paintings and the poetics of Romanticism, the book offers great insights into the exchange of ideas and inspirations among the cultural luminaries who surrounded the London stage.

The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set

Gary Day,Jack Lynch
The Encyclopedia of British Literature 3 Volume Set Book PDF

Author : Gary Day,Jack Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444330205

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The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set by Gary Day,Jack Lynch Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas

James Armstrong
Romantic Actors Romantic Dramas Book PDF

Author : James Armstrong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031137105

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Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas by James Armstrong Pdf

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in the theatre themselves. However, they closely followed the careers of star performers. Even when they did not directly know actors, they had what media theorists have dubbed "para-social interactions" with those stars, interacting with them through the mediation of mass communication, whether as audience members, newspaper and memoir readers, or consumers of prints, porcelain miniatures, and other manifestations of "fan" culture. This study takes an in-depth look at four pairs of performers and playwrights: Sarah Siddons and Joanna Baillie, Julia Glover and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edmund Kean and Lord Byron, and Eliza O'Neill and Percy Bysshe Shelley. These charismatic performers, knowingly or not, helped to guide the development of a character-based theatre—from the emotion-dominated plays made popular by Baillie to the pinnacle of Romantic drama under Shelley. They shepherded in a new style of writing that had verbal sophistication and engaged meaningfully with the moral issues of the day. They helped to create not just new modes of acting, but new ways of writing that could make use of their extraordinary talents.

The Shakespearean World

Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby
The Shakespearean World Book PDF

Author : Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696193

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The Shakespearean World by Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby Pdf

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.

David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity

Leslie Ritchie
David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity Book PDF

Author : Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108475877

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David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity by Leslie Ritchie Pdf

Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.

Great Shakespeare Actors

Stanley Wells
Great Shakespeare Actors Book PDF

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191008351

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Great Shakespeare Actors by Stanley Wells Pdf

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first—the answer is No—and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Kenneth Branagh. Individual chapters tell the story of their subjects' careers, but together these overlapping tales combine to offer a succinct, actor-centred history of Shakespearian theatrical performance. Stanley Wells examines what it takes to be a great Shakespeare actor and then offers a concise sketch of each actor's career in Shakespeare, an assessment of their specific talents and claims to greatness, and an account, drawing on contemporary reviews, biographies, anecdotes, and, for some of the more recent actors, the author's personal memories of their most notable performances in Shakespeare roles.

Shakespeare and the Romantics

David Fuller
Shakespeare and the Romantics Book PDF

Author : David Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192648396

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Shakespeare and the Romantics by David Fuller Pdf

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary change, it is experimental, writerly, and individually expressive. Above all it is creative in response to the difficulties of understanding aesthetic experience in new ways, and in setting those experiences in new cultural and political contexts that Shakespeare's work helped to shape. This book presents the main currents of these exciting but relatively little known engagements with Shakespeare, and through Shakespeare with the theory and practice of criticism, in England, Germany, and France, from the 1760s in Germany to the aftermath of the Romanticism in France. It also discusses Shakespeare in the theatre of the period—realist stagings which prefigure Shakespeare films; adaptations which fitted Shakespeare to contemporary tastes; and bare-stage experiments which foreshadow modes of contemporary theatre. A chapter on scholarship in the period shows Shakespeare as central to modern editing and historical criticism. Much of the writing discussed is by men and women whose focus is not primarily critical but creative—poetry (Coleridge, Keats, Heine), fiction (Stendhal), drama (Lessing), or all three (Goethe, Hugo), cultural critique (Jameson, de Staël), philosophy (Hamann, Herder), politics (Hazlitt, Guizot), aesthetics (the Schlegel circle), or new original work in other media (Berlioz, Delacroix, Chassériau). It is writing directed to new modes of creating as well as new modes of understanding.

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

Anaïs Pédron,Clare Siviter
Celebrity Across the Channel 1750 1850 Book PDF

Author : Anaïs Pédron,Clare Siviter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532140

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Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850 by Anaïs Pédron,Clare Siviter Pdf

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The Invention of Celebrity, translated into English in 2017. With contributions from a diverse range of scholarly cultures, the volume has a firmly interdisciplinary scope over the time period 1750 to 1850, which was an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. Bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. The organization of the collection allows for new readings of the similarities and differences in the understanding of celebrity in Britain and France. Consequently, the volume builds upon the questions that are currently at the heart of celebrity studies.

Corrosive Solace

Daniel O'Quinn
Corrosive Solace Book PDF

Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781512823127

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Corrosive Solace by Daniel O'Quinn Pdf

In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire. He examines how the analysis of feeling or affect can be deployed to address the inchoate causal relation between historical events and their mediation. In this sense, Corrosive Solace’s goals are twofold: first, to outline the methodologies necessary for dealing with the affective recognition of historical crisis; and second, to make the historically familiar strange again, and thus make visible key avenues for discussion that have remained dormant. Both of these objectives turn on recognition: How do we theorize the implicit affective recognition of crisis in a distant historical moment? And how do we recognize what we, in our present moment, cannot discern? Corrosive Solace addresses this complex cultural reorientation by attending less to “new” cultural products than to the theoretical and historical problems posed by looking at the transformation of “old” plays and modes of performance. These “old” plays—Shakespeare, post-Restoration comedy and she-tragedy—were a vital plank of the cultural patrimony, so much of O’Quinn’s analysis lies in how tradition was recovered and redirected to meet urgent social and political needs. Across the arc of Corrosive Solace, he tracks how the loss of the American War forced Britons to refashion the repertoire of cultural signs and social dispositions that had subtended its first empire in the Atlantic world in a way more suited to its emergent empire in South Asia.

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater 1780 1830 Book PDF

Author : Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472129768

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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830 by Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson Pdf

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.