Author: Thomas Davies
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare
Author: Thomas Davies
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare
Author: Thomas Davies
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Dramatic Miscellanies
Author: Thomas Davies
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Bibliotheca histrionica, a catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of mr. John Field ... which will be sold by auction
Author: John Field (dramatic collector.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Bibliotheca Histrionica. A catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of Mr. J. Field ... which will be sold by auction, etc. [With the prices in MS.]
Author: John FIELD (Collector of Dramatic Literature.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Dramatic Micellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare
Drama
Author:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage.
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage.
African Theatre
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215390
Category : African drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215390
Category : African drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
A Dictionary of the Drama
Author: W. Davenport Adams
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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