Thomas Sheridan Of Smock Alley

Author : Esther K. Sheldon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876228

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Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley by Esther K. Sheldon Pdf

This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information about Sheridan’s relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater historians. Originally published in 1967. 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 : Thomas Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1765
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1380395177

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The Case of Mr. Thomas Sheridan, Formerly Manager of the Theatre in Smock-Alley ... by Thomas Sheridan Pdf

Author : Thomas Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1758
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11714401

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An Humble Appeal to the Publick, Together with Some Considerations on the Present Critical and Dangerous State of the Stage in Ireland. By Thomas Sheridan, ... by Thomas Sheridan Pdf

Author : Conrad Brunstorm
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611480399

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Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence by Conrad Brunstorm Pdf

This book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal and European cultural revival was the cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. His lectures on oratory provoked admiration and ridicule in roughly equal measure, yet he would have a profound influence on educational practice.

Author : Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874132436

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The Plays of Frances Sheridan by Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan Pdf

Frances Sheridan is now remembered, if at all, as the mother of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Yet, in her own day, she was a novelist and playwright whose work was admired by her contemporaries, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson. James Boswell, and Samuel Richardson. The appearance of all of this dramatist's long-out-of-print work reveals her to be an authoress worth studying, not only as an important influence on her son, but in her own right.

Author : Jack E. DeRochi,Daniel James Ennis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9781611484809

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Jack E. DeRochi,Daniel James Ennis Pdf

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650--1850)

Author : Linda Kelly
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571287154

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Linda Kelly Pdf

The first night of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, on 8 May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched into eighteenth-century society, as much at home in the salons of the Duchess of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales as in the taverns and coffee-houses around Drury Lane. Sheridan's comedies were all written by the time he was twenty-eight. For the next thirty years he was wholly involved in his twin careers as manager of the Drury Lane theatre and Member of Parliament. At a time when politics were dominated by a few aristocratic families, he rose above his poverty to become one of the greatest parliamentary figures of the age. In the theatre, he presided over one of the most brilliant periods in the history of the English stage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kelly gives a comprehensive picture of Sheridan's tempestuous career and chaotic private life. For all his faults, his charm was irresistible - 'there has been nothing like it since the days of Orpheus,' wrote Byron. It is charm that illuminates her narrative, bringing Sheridan to life. 'I can imagine no better biography of this talented, dynamic, impossibly unreliable firework of a man.' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph

Author : Curt Arno Zimansky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400871940

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English Literature, 1660-1800 by Curt Arno Zimansky Pdf

The Philological Quarterly's annual bibliographies of modern studies in English neoclassical literature, published originally from 1961 to 1970, are reproduced in two volumes. Readers will find the same features that distinguished earlier compilations in the series: inclusive listing of significant works published in each year (including sections on the historical and cultural background as well as literature), authoritative reviews of important works, critical comments, and a full index that is in itself an indispensable reference tool. Originally published in 1972. 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 : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429820038

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The Birth of Modern Theatre by Norman S. Poser Pdf

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 : John Ripley
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Generals in literature
ISBN : 0838637418

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Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 by John Ripley Pdf

Drawing upon promptbooks and other theater documents, engravings and photographs, reviews, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he creates a richly layered account of a play persistently denied its character and rarely staged without explicit or implicit apology.

Author : Carol Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317034506

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The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics by Carol Stewart Pdf

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen trace the translation of ethical debate into secular and gendered terms. Stewart argues that the seventeenth-century debate about ethics that divided Latitudinarians and Calvinists found its way into novels of the eighteenth century. Her book explores the growing belief that novels could do the work of moral reform more effectively than the Anglican Church, with attention to related developments, including the promulgation of Anglican ethics in novels as a response to challenges to Anglican practice and authority. An increasingly legitimate genre, she argues, offered a forum both for investigating the situation of women and challenging patriarchal authority, and for challenging the dominant political ideology.

Author : Richard Bourke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691175652

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Empire and Revolution by Richard Bourke Pdf

A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth century Edmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the great debate on the French Revolution. Drawing on the complete range of printed and manuscript sources, Empire and Revolution offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. In restoring Burke to his original political and intellectual context, this book overturns the conventional picture of a partisan of tradition against progress and presents a multifaceted portrait of one of the most captivating figures in eighteenth-century life and thought. A boldly ambitious work of scholarship, this book challenges us to rethink the legacy of Burke and the turbulent era in which he played so pivotal a role.

Author : Laetitia Pilkington
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820317195

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Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington by Laetitia Pilkington Pdf

This is the first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Laetitia Van Lewen Pilkington (1709?-1750), a poet, ghostwriter, and protégée of Jonathan Swift and the playwright/stage manager Colley Cibber. Swift's first biographer by virtue of her lively portrayals of him, Pilkington remains the best chronicler of the great satirist's private life while he was at the height of his influence and creativity. Offering as well an account of Pilkington's own tumultuous and unconventional life, the Memoirs caused a scandal when they first appeared, owing to their details about her divorce and the many would-be Lotharios (most of them married) who subsequently pestered her with their attentions. Originally appearing in three volumes between 1748 and 1754, the Memoirs have been periodically reprinted and are often quoted by scholars in different disciplines. Until now, however, the work has not received serious editorial attention. In this edition, A. C. Elias Jr. has established for the first time a critical text based on the earliest and most definitive printings, which Pilkington and her son oversaw. For the first time there are explanatory notes that identify the many veiled or anonymous figures in the text and establish the reliability of each anecdote about them. Other new features include an index, a census of early editions, a full bibliography, and a chronology. This edition is produced in a two-volume format, the first comprising the actual Memoirs, and the second the commentary. Readers are at last in a position to understand exactly what Pilkington is saying in her Memoirs--and what she may be suppressing in the process. They can now approach Pilkington's Swift with confidence at each step, and appreciate her rendering of the many other real-life personages who populate her disarmingly breezy narrative: bishops, scientists, and statesmen; authors, artists, and printers; and assorted rogues, wits, bawds, and eccentrics. More than any other early-eighteenth-century woman writing in English, says Elias, Pilkington remains accessible to readers today. As a portrayal of Swift, as the recollections of a woman making her way in the male-dominated world of letters, as a source of Irish and English cultural and historical minutiae, and as a delightfully gossipy poke at social pretense, Pilkington's Memoirs are a classic of her era.

Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351571203

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Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Susan Wollenberg Pdf

In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.

Author : Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080930919X

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse by Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans Pdf

Volume 8 dis­cusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.