Author: Edward BeethamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
New Lectures on Heads, Describing the Characters, Passions, Morals, Fashions, ... Incident to Human Life
Author: Edward BeethamNew Lectures on Heads, describing the characters, passions, morals, fashions, follies, virtues, vices, and absurdities incident to human life, etc. [With a plate.]
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Author: Edward BeethamGeorge Alexander Stevens and the Lecture on Heads
Author: Gerald KahanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033264X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. The Lecture was first presented in London in 1764 and became a staple in the English-speaking theaters of the world for the remainder of the eighteenth century. It amassed a fortune for its creator, George Alexander Stevens, was copied and adapted by dozens of performers, and went through forty published editions, authentic and spurious. Kahan studies the theatrical and cultural backgrounds that influenced the contents, development, and popularity of the Lecture. His exhaustive research has produced the most comprehensive and accurate published account of Stevens's life and career as well as a bibliography of his works. In addition, readers will find one of the earliest printed texts of the Lecture and a scholarly chronological listing of hundreds of its performances and many of its variations, including information on dates, cities, theaters, actors, ticket prices, and critical reviews.
The Celebrated Lecture on Heads
Author: George Alexander StevensPublisher:
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Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
George Steven's Celebrated Lecture on Heads; which has been exhibited upwards of two hundred and fifty successive nights ... The seventh edition. With an entire new frontispiece, etc
Author: George Alexander StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
A Lecture on Heads
Author: George Alexander StevensPublisher:
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Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy PauschPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Prints and DrawingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
Author: John C. GreenePublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 1611461138
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evening’s entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatre’s daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each component’s entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasons’s offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of “special Irish interest.” The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important “minors.” This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories.
National Library of Medicine Audiovisuals Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description