Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama
Author: Allardyce NicollA History of English Drama, 1660-1900: Late eighteenth century drama, 1750-1800. 2d ed
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists
Author: Mary PixPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p
Shylock on the Stage
Author: Toby LelyveldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317638743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A pioneering work in the study of performance history as well as in the portrayal of Jews in English literature. Specifically it studies Charles Macklin, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving and more recent performers.
European Literatures in Britain, 18–15–1832: Romantic Translations
Author: Diego SagliaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Pagodas in Play
Author: Adrienne WardPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838756964
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.
Arthur Murphy
Author: John Pike EmeryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151281573X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A biography of one of the most popular dramatist of his day, friend of Fielding, Dr. Johnson, David Garrick, and the Thrales.
The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set
Author: Gary DayPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444330209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
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
Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period
Author: Lucy E. ThompsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000532453
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Romantic-era literature offers a key message: surveillance, in all its forms, was experienced distinctly and differently by women than men. Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period examines how familiar and neglected texts internalise and interrogate the ways in which targeted, asymmetric, and often isolating surveillance made women increasingly and uncomfortably visible in a way that still resonates today. The book combines the insights of modern surveillance studies with Romantic scholarship. It provides readers with a new context in which to understand Romantic-period texts and looks critically at emerging paradigms of surveillance directed at marginal groups, as well as resistance to such monitoring. Works by writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and Joanna Baillie, as well as Lord Byron and Thomas De Quincey, give a new perspective on the age that produced the Panopticon. This book is designed to appeal to a wide readership, and is aimed at students and scholars of surveillance, literature, Romanticism, and gender politics, as well as those interested in important strands of women’s experience not only for the additional layers they reveal about the Romantic era but also for their relevance to current debates around asymmetries of power within gendered surveillance.