Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198124658
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198124658
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
Author: Michael V. PisaniPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382307
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music—in addition to song—was a common feature in the production of stage plays. The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century
Author: William BroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
19th Century English Plays
Author: The Performing Century
Author: T. DavisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
English Plays of the 19th Century
Author: Michael Richard BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Analyses of 19th Century Melodrama plays and The Symbolic Function of Cityscape in J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
Author: Hartmut IlsemannPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3756875962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Der Band umfasst drei Aufsätze, zwei davon behandeln Rezeption und Strukturierung von Melodramen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Analysiert werden The Factory Lad (Walker) und The Bells (Lewis). Der dritte Aufsatz stellt die Symbolfunktion der Stadtlandschaft in Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings dar. Die Darstellung erfolgte vollständig in englischer Sprache.
English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: John Bull
Author: Michael R. BoothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: John Henry OttemillerPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.