The Plays Of David Garrick Garrick S Own Plays 1740 1766

Author : David Garrick
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809308622

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The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766 by David Garrick Pdf

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 : David Garrick
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0809308622

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Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766 by David Garrick Pdf

Author : David Garrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015014287067

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The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1767-1775 by David Garrick Pdf

Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421441696

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Women in Wartime by Paula R. Backscheider Pdf

A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, Backscheider traces the rise of the London theatre's acceptance that one of its responsibilities was to support its country's wars. Rather than focusing on the historical, mythical "warrior women" on the battlefield who have been much studied, Backscheider explores the lives and work of sweethearts, wives, mothers, sisters, barmaids, provision sellers, seaport prostitutes, and more, whose relationships to active-duty men made them recruits, volunteers, or even conscripts. They represent a distinct group of thousands of real women, and the actresses who portrayed them gave performances of change, struggle, celebration, mourning, survival, love, and patriotism. Backscheider explicates more than fifty plays—from main pieces, short farces, interludes, afterpieces, and comic operas to entr'actes, pantomimes, and even masques—as both entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of severe crises. She also reveals how these works, many written by men with military experience, attest to the context of difficult, inescapable realities and momentous needs. Through the debunking of sexual stereotypes and attention to audience-pleasing roles such as impoverished-wife and breeches parts, Backscheider adds a dimension to theatrical history that substantially contributes to women's and military histories. Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.

Author : Ian Newman,David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800855601

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Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London by Ian Newman,David O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.

Author : Gary Day,Jack Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1524 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444330205

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The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set by Gary Day,Jack Lynch Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Author : Jon Thomas Rowland
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838637604

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Swords in Myrtle Dress'd by Jon Thomas Rowland Pdf

Part 2 offers readings of homoeroticism in Akenside's The Pleasures of Imagination and his Odes, where homosexuality manifests itself indirectly, through elision and through Akenside's own revision of his most homoerotic passages. Finally, Part 3 returns to read homosexuality in political life, but later in the century, when the idea is exploited by Wilkes and Churchill, with some very surprising results, in their campaign against George III and his prime minister, the earl of Bute.

Author : Jocelyn Thorpe,Stephanie Rutherford,L. Anders Sandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317353560

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Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research by Jocelyn Thorpe,Stephanie Rutherford,L. Anders Sandberg Pdf

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.

Author : Elisabeth Gernerd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350293403

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The Modern Venus by Elisabeth Gernerd Pdf

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political allegiances. These so-called ephemeral flights of fashion were not peripheral and supplementary, but highly charged artefacts, acting as cultural currency in contemporary society. The Modern Venus highlights the significance of these elements of a woman's wardrobe in 1770s and 1780s Britain and the Atlantic World, and shows how they played their part in transforming fashionable dress when this was expanding to new heights and volumes. Dissecting the female silhouette into regions of the body and types of dress and shifting away from a broad-sweeping stylistic evolution, this book explores these potent players within the woman's armoury. Marrying material, archival and visual approaches to dress history, and drawing on a rich range of sources – including painted portraiture, satirical prints, diaries, memoirs – The Modern Venus unpacks dress as a medium and mediator in women's lives. It demonstrates the importance of these overlooked garments in defining not just a woman's silhouette, but also her social and cultural situation, and thereby shapes our understanding of late 18th-century life. With over 125 color images, The Modern Venus is a remarkable resource for scholars, students and costume lovers alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968931

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John Durang by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol Houlihan Flynn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400854042

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Samuel Richardson by Carol Houlihan Flynn Pdf

Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Joachim Möller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015040651401

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Hogarth in Context by Joachim Möller Pdf

Author : David Garrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066012074

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The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's alterations of others, 1742-1773 by David Garrick Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-07
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UVA:X001085447

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1770 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : IND:30000114363868

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf