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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Black Beard, the Pirate; or, the Captive princess: a drama, etc
Author: Bluebeard
Author: Casie HermanssonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
Author: John C. GreenePublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 1611461170
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 805
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.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryCatalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Daughter of the Pirate King
Author: Tricia LevensellerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250095964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A 17-year-old pirate captain INTENTIONALLY allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure from debut author Tricia Levenseller.
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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