The Extravaganzas Of J R Planché Esq Vol 2

Author : T. F. Dillon Croker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0483454400

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The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planché, Esq., Vol. 2 by T. F. Dillon Croker Pdf

Excerpt from The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planche, Esq., Vol. 2: 1825-1871 Cen. Well, I've heard that a hundred times before. Pra. And can't find fault with it. Cen. N O, that's the bore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262547543

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Illusions in Motion by Erkki Huhtamo Pdf

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.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857724724

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The Golden Age of Pantomime by Jeffrey Richards Pdf

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 : Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Christy Desmet,Janice Norwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040128909

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 2 by Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Christy Desmet,Janice Norwood Pdf

Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.

Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300022471

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The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planché, Esq., (Somerset Herald) 1825-1871 by James Robinson Planché Pdf

Author : James Robinson Planch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112002964424

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The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planche, Esq, 1825-1871 by James Robinson Planch Pdf

Author : Peter Swallow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192694911

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Aristophanes in Britain by Peter Swallow Pdf

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 : Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521659825

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Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin Pdf

This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.

Author : Jesse G. Swan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485417

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Editing Lives by Jesse G. Swan Pdf

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.

Author : Gavin Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190916770

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Hearing the Crimean War by Gavin Williams Pdf

What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea. Examining the experience of listeners and the politics of archiving sound, it reveals the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the media through which wartime sounds became audible--or failed to do so. The volume explores the dynamics of sound both in violent encounters on the battlefield and in the experience of listeners far-removed from theaters of war, each essay interrogating the Crimean War's sonic archive in order to address a broad set of issues in musicology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, the history of the senses and sound studies.

Author : Patricia T. O'Conner,Stewart Kellerman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588368560

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Origins of the Specious by Patricia T. O'Conner,Stewart Kellerman Pdf

Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-informed. In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman reveal why some of grammar’s best-known “rules” aren’t—and never were—rules at all. This playfully witty, rigorously researched book sets the record straight about bogus word origins, politically correct fictions, phony français, fake acronyms, and more. Here are some shockers: “They” was once commonly used for both singular and plural, much the way “you” is today. And an eighteenth-century female grammarian, of all people, is largely responsible for the all-purpose “he.” From the Queen’s English to street slang, this eye-opening romp will be the toast of grammarphiles and the salvation of grammarphobes. Take our word for it.

Author : Jennifer Schacker,Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000401226

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The Routledge Pantomime Reader by Jennifer Schacker,Daniel O'Quinn Pdf

The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre—one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Britain. Across ten different shows, readers witness pantomime’s development from a highly improvisational venue for clowning, dance, and musical parody to a complex amalgamation of physical and topical comedy, stage wizardry, scenic spectacle, satire, and magical mayhem. Combining well-known tales such as "Cinderella", "Aladdin", and "Jack and the Beanstalk" with the lesser-known plotlines of "Peter Wilkins" and "The Prince of Happy Land", the book demonstrates not only how popular narratives were adapted to the current moment, but also how this blend of high and low entertainment addressed a whole range of social and cultural anxieties. Along with carefully annotated scripts, readers will find detailed introductions to all of the collected pantomimes and supplementary materials such as reviews, reminiscences, and a host of visual materials that bring these neglected entertainments to life. The plays collected here provide a remarkable perspective on the history of sexuality, class, and race during a period of vast imperial expansion and important social upheaval in Britain itself—essential reading for students and scholars of theatre history and popular performance.

Author : H. Philip Bolton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780720121179

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Women Writers Dramatized by H. Philip Bolton Pdf

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 : Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350027183

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Victorian Epic Burlesques by Rachel Bryant Davies Pdf

This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planché (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865). Beloved legend, archaeological riddle and educational staple: Homer's epic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath were vividly reimagined in nineteenth-century Britain. Classical burlesques-exceptionally successful theatrical entertainments-continually mined the Iliad and Odyssey to lucrative comic effect. Burlesques combined song, dance and slapstick comedy with an eclectic kaleidoscope of topical allusions. From namedropping boxing legends to recasting Shakespearean combats, epic adaptations overflow with satirical commentary on politics, cultural highlights and everyday current affairs. In uncovering Homer's irreverently playful afterlife, this selection showcases burlesque's development and wide appeal. The critical introduction analyses how these plays contested the accessibility of classical antiquity and dramatic performance. Textual and literary annotations, with contemporary illustrations, illuminate the juxtaposed sources to establish these repackaged epics as indispensable tools for unlocking nineteenth-century social, cultural and political history. Resources for further study are available online.

Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521889674

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Romantic Drama by Frederick Burwick Pdf

This book examines the radical changes in drama during the Romantic period, tracing how these changes affected theatre performance, acting, and audience.