Author: John Thomas DicksPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Dicks' standard plays
Author: John Thomas DicksThe Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900
Author: Frederick Wilse BatesonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Dicks' complete edition of Shakspere's Works
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Plays by Dion Boucicault
Author: Peter ThomsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521239974
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit. His plays reflect the different theatrical traditions, Irish, English and American, in which he was a crucial figure. Two plays are published here for the first time this century, Used Up and Jessie Brown. The Shaughraun and The Octoroon are outstanding examples of melodrama; Old Heads and Young Hearts is one of the few notable nineteenth-century comedies. Peter Thomson's introduction assesses Boucicault's place in the nineteenth century in both England and America, and shows that his work cannot be ignored by any serious student of drama.
Romantic Adaptations
Author: Cian DuffyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317061659
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses on the adaptation of source material by romantic writers and the adaptation in subsequent periods of the tropes and ideologies associated with romanticism. In place of a hierarchical distinction between source and text, between ’romanticism’ and its contexts, the collection identifies distinct but overlapping and mutually constitutive genres such as the Gothic and romance. Whether their essays deal with early nineteenth-century periodical reviews, affordable editions of Pride and Prejudice aimed at the late nineteenth-century mass audience, or the ongoing cultural presence of romanticism in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century debates about embryology and stem cell research, the contributors remain cognizant of the tension between the processes of adaptation and the apparent ideology of romantic originality.
The Deformed Transformed. A Drama, ... Founded Partly on the Story of a Novel Called "The Three Brothers," ... and Partly on the "Faust" of ... Goethe, Etc
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault
Author: Dion BoucicaultPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813206172
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The selection of Boucicault's work in this volume stresses his consummate craft as a writer for the theatre in the age of actor-managers and melodrama. It also reminds us of that Irish verve, charm and adroitness which made him the best playwright of his generation in England and America as well as Ireland. Arguably the father of both the Irish and American drama, his characteristic plotting and taste for sensation suggest that another of his heirs was the early movie industry.
Playing to the Crowd
Author: F. BurwickPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370659
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.