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Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Garrick, David
ISBN : 0719008581
Author : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429820038
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.
Author : A. Nicholas Vardac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012167156
Author : Thomas Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : Actors
ISBN : OXFORD:590287932
Author : John Vinci
Publisher : Alphawood Exhibitions
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517912806
A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago's greatest lost buildings For six months in 1961, Richard Nickel, John Vinci, and David Norris salvaged the interior and exterior ornamentation of the Garrick Theater, Adler & Sullivan's magnificent architectural masterpiece in Chicago's theater district. The building was replaced by a parking garage, and its demolition ignited the historic preservation movement in Chicago. The Garrick (originally the Schiller Building) was built in 1892 and featured elaborate embellishments, especially in its theater and exterior, including the ornamentation and colorful decorative stenciling that would become hallmarks of Louis Sullivan's career. Reconstructing the Garrick documents the enormous salvaging job undertaken to preserve elements of the building's design, but also presents the full life story of the Garrick, featuring historic and architectural photographs, essays by prominent architectural and art historians, interviews, drawings, ephemera from throughout its lively history and details of its remarkable ornamentation--a significant resource and compelling tribute to one of Chicago's finest lost buildings. A seventy-two-page facsimile of Richard Nickel's salvage workbook is tipped into the binding.
Author : George Winchester Stone Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520334939
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Leigh Woods
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780313242595
Discusses the importance of salt and describes the mining and processing rock salt which is used in industry and agriculture and the manufacture of table salt which originates in brine pumped from the ground.
Author : Kalman A. Burnim
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809306255
The life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations." For twenty-nine years (1747-1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
Author : David Garrick
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809308622
David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all masterpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage historian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades. A Dramatic Satire, 1740; The Lying Valet, 1741; Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, 1747; Lilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, 1756; The Male-Coquette; or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, 1757; The Guardian. A Comedy, 1759; Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol, 1759; The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic. A Musical Drama, 1760; The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude, 1762; The Clandestine Marriage. A Comedy, 1766; and Neck or Nothing. A Farce, 1766.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476850580
John Willis' Screen World has become the definitive reference for any film library. Each volume includes every significant U.S. and international film released during that year as well as complete filmographies capsule plot summaries cast and characters credits production company month released rating and running time. You'll also find biographical entries ä a prices reference for over 2 000 living stars including real name school place and date of birth. A comprehensive index makes this the finest film publication that any film lover could own.
Author : Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108475877
Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Author : William Shipley Group for RSA History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0244919437
Author : Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher : Boston : W.H. Baker & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Drama
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP4FM
Author : Helen Forrester
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007369324
This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read.
Author : Richard W. Bevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317870920
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.