Author: William Rufus ChetwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A General History Of The Stage From Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Time
Author: William Rufus ChetwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A General History of the Stage
Author: William Rufus ChetwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William LowePublisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Author: Tanya PollardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192511610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Elizabethan Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Owning Performance | Performing Ownership
Author: Jane WesselPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047222025X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
In 1710, England’s first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in a cultural and legal environment that treated print differently from performance. As ownership became a central concern for many, actors fought to possess their dramatic parts exclusively, playwrights struggled to control and profit from repeat performances of their works, and managers tried to gain a monopoly over the performance of profitable plays. Owning Performance follows the careers of some of the 18th century’s most influential playwrights, actors, and theater managers as they vied for control over the period’s most popular shows. Without protection for dramatic literary property, these figures developed creative extra-legal strategies for controlling the performance of drama—quite literally performing their ownership. Their various strategies resulted in a culture of ephemerality, with many of the period’s most popular works existing only in performance and manuscript copies. Author Jane Wessel explores how playwrights and actors developed strategies for owning their works and how, in turn, theater managers appropriated these strategies, putting constant pressure on artists to innovate. Owning Performance reveals the wide-reaching effects of property law on theatrical culture, tracing a turn away from print that affected the circulation, preservation, and legacy of 18th century drama.
Library of J.H.V. Arnold
Author: John Harvey Vincent ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Struggle for a Free Stage in London
Author: Watson NicholsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
British Enlightenment Theatre
Author: Bridget OrrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499716
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.