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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 180?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79147716
Author : David Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Harlequin (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0674429869
Author : David Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005447456
Author : Dr Susan Valladares
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472418630
In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and shaped public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Early English newspapers
ISBN : NYPL:33433081674446
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472220328
Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. context during the Exclusion Era (1862–1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship. These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. The book examines a wide-ranging set of primary sources, including makeup guidebooks, play catalogs, advertisements, biographies, and backstage anecdotes, providing new ways of understanding and categorizing yellowface as theatrical practice and historical subject. Made-Up Asians also shows how lingering effects of Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : British periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B3057808
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059171104395824
Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857724724
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 J. Kitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107513372
The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839–42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879108
In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime—a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar figure of the harlequin at its center—was a theatrical experience of unprecedented accessibility. The immediate popularity of this new genre drew theater apprentices to the cities to learn the new style, and pantomime became the subject of lively debate within British society. Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding bitterly opposed the intrusion into legitimate literary culture of what they regarded as fairground amusements that appealed to sensation and passion over reason and judgment. In Harlequin Britain, literary scholar John O'Brien examines this new form of entertainment and the effect it had on British culture. Why did pantomime become so popular so quickly? Why was it perceived as culturally threatening and socially destabilizing? O’Brien finds that pantomime’s socially subversive commentary cut through the dampened spirit of debate created by Robert Walpole's one-party rule. At the same time, pantomime appealed to the abstracted taste of the mass audience. Its extraordinary popularity underscores the continuing centrality of live performance in a culture that is most typically seen as having shifted its attention to the written text—in particular, to the novel. Written in a lively style rich with anecdotes, Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genres and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainment culture.
Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315490
Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.
Author : Michael Kassler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092056
The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee. Although some publishers put the words 'Entered at Stationers' Hall' on title-pages without actually depositing copies, the information in the registers about the many works that were registered has significant bibliographic value. Because the music entries have not previously been printed and access to them has been difficult, they generally have been ignored by cataloguers and scholars, with the consequence that numerous musical works of this period have been misdated in libraries and reference books. This book makes available, for the first time, the full text of the music entries at Stationers' Hall from 1710 to 1810 and abbreviated details of works entered from 1811 to 1818. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of locations of copies of most works, together with indexes of composers, authors, performers and dedicatees, and an explanatory introduction by the compiler.
Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317319511
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968931