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Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000005983537
Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:aan3575:0002.001
Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:20017126
Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101054539307
Author : George Henry Boker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:2277298
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433082033535
Author : Buffalo. Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Library catalogues
ISBN : UIUC:30112087485907
Author : Charles Shadwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1720
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018084316
Author : Tice L. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780809387489
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198604181
Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when they were first performed, or perhaps to see how many characters they have, and whether or not they would be suitable for their theatre company or drama group to perform. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of title, author, date of composition, date of first performance, genre, setting, and the composition of the cast, and more. A synopsis of the plot and a brief commentary, perhaps on the context of the play, or the reasons for its enduring popularity, follow. Around 80 of the most significant plays - from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot - are dealt with in more detail. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, tragicomedy, satire, and tragedy. An index of characters enables the reader to locate favourite characters, and trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters - such as Iphigenia - through world drama, including in plays that do not have entries in the Dictionary. An index of playwrights, with dates, allows the reader to find all the plays included by a particular author.
Author : Public Library of Victoria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Public libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015716348
Author : U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z228584407
Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076021561
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268393
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X004795659