Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850 1910

Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317389460

Get Book

Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 by Michael R. Booth Pdf

Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably consistent style, it was used for a variety of dramatic forms, although surrounded by critical controversy. The book considers the theories and practice of spectacle production as well as the cultural and artistic movements that created the favourable conditions in which spectacle could dominate such large areas of theatre for so many years. It also discusses the growth of spectacle and the taste of the public for it, examining the influence of painting, archaeology, history, and the trend towards realism in stage production. An explanation of the working of spectacle in Shakespeare, pantomime and melodrama is followed by detailed reconstructions of the spectacle productions of Irving’s Faust and Beerbohm Tree’s King Henry VIII.

Author : Paul Fryer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476649429

Get Book

Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910 by Paul Fryer Pdf

This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "blockbusters" of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon of the "smash hit" show is not restricted to modern Broadway. This is a world that encompassed the ground-breaking stage technology of Ben Hur, the wide political impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the sheer creative originality of L'Enfant Prodigue. Supporting the "star" system, productions featured some of the greatest names of the period - Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, James O'Neill and Dion Boucicault. This was the very dawning of a new media age, which saw many of the productions transfer to the new world of silent cinema for the very first time

Author : Janet Ruth Heller
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0826207189

Get Book

Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama by Janet Ruth Heller Pdf

"Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best tragedy should be read rather than performed, and they have often been attacked for their views by later critics. Through detailed analysis of Coleridge's Shakespearean Criticism, Lamb's On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, and Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Heller shows that in their concern with educating the reader these Romantics anticipate twentieth-century reader response criticism, educational theory, and film criticism."--Publishers website.

Author : A. Varty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286061

Get Book

Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain by A. Varty Pdf

The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Fierce public debate and lasting legislation grew out of the conflict between a desire for juvenile display and a determination to stop exploitation. This study explores the social and artistic context of their lives and their developing professionalism as actors.

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199593736

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John Pdf

Structured around three broad sections (on ‘Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology’, ‘Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief’, and ‘Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures’), the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own ‘lead’ essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today’s Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume’s essays: that is, the nature and status of ‘literary’ culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present.

Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000775570

Get Book

Opera Outside the Box by Roberta Montemorra Marvin Pdf

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated, by examining opera-related matters in publication and performance, in both musical and non-musical genres, outside the traditional approaches to transmission of operatic works and associated concepts. As a group, they exemplify the broad array of questions to be grappled with in seeking to identify commonalities that might shed light in new and imaginative ways on the experiences and manifestations of opera and notions of opera in Victorian Britain. In unpacking the significance, relevance, uses, and impacts of opera within British society, the collection seeks to enhance understanding of a few of the manifold ways in which the population learned about and experienced opera, how audiences and the broader public understood the genre and the aesthetics surrounding it, how familiarity with opera played out in British culture, and how British customs, values, and principles affected the genre of opera and perceptions of it.

Author : Claude Schumacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521230144

Get Book

Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918 by Claude Schumacher Pdf

This fourth volume in the series Theatre in Europe charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521795362

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317398929

Get Book

Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre by Various Pdf

Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.

Author : Arnold Schmidt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315530123

Get Book

British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850 by Arnold Schmidt Pdf

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112004091549

Get Book

The Arnoldian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521886994

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture by Francis O'Gorman Pdf

Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.

Author : Louise D'Arcens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843843801

Get Book

Comic Medievalism by Louise D'Arcens Pdf

The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about the medieval but also about modernity. Tracing the development and permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody, irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong.

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143728

Get Book

Shakespeare And The Victorians by Adrian Poole Pdf

Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.

Author : Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107192669

Get Book

Troy, Carthage and the Victorians by Rachel Bryant Davies Pdf

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.