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Author : George Colman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 18??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:271085491
Author : George Colman (jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014631343
Author : Barry Sutcliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521240190
This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists. The plays have been chosen to represent the range of the two playwrights and the variety of dramatic material on offer during the period. The full-length plays and afterpieces by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton were as popular as Sheridan's works in their time, but today are seldom performed or read. This discrepancy lies at the heart of Barry Sutcliffe's extensive introduction, which explores the critical and social background to the dramatic activity of the period and relates the dramas to the shifting demands of the theatre audiences for whom these plays were written.
Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108853576
This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.
Author : National library of Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555060746
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476606804
Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln’s last night at Ford’s, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.
Author : Betsy Bolton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521771161
This 2001 book examines how Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to intervene in politics.
Author : Philip F. Kennedy,Marina Warner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781479857098
Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.
Author : George Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521630528
This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773565555
In the plays, as in her novels, Burney satirizes the social conventions and pretensions of her day. The Witlings (1779), her first play, is a biting satire on the Bluestockings; it was never performed, however, for fear of a possible scandal. The violent, the grotesque, and the macabre also figure strongly in her writings. Contents Volume 1: The Comedies Introduction Chronology The Witlings (1778-80) Love and Fashion (1798-99) A Busy Day (1800-02) The Woman-Hater (1800-02) Volume 2: The Tragedies Edwy and Elgiva (1788-95) Hubert de Vere (1790-97) The Siege of Pevensey (1790-91) Elberta (1791-1814) Appendix: The Triumphant Toadeater (1798)
Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351148948
Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical debate on Value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Bhattacharya explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing, and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how Value and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century circumatlantic discourses with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She also delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.
Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108476133
Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.
Author : Frank Felsenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801861063
--from the Introduction [p.43]--John Gilmore "Slavery and Abolition"
Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317323730
William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author : Jeffrey N. Cox,Michael Gamer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551112985
The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.