Author: Thomas DaviesPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Dramatic Micellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare
Author: Thomas DaviesShakespeare as a Dramatic Artist
Author: Thomas Raynesford LounsburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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Author: John Russell SmithA Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare, including every known edition, translation, and commentary. By H. G. Bohn. Printed off separately from his enlarged edition of the Bibliographer's Manual [of W. T. Lowndes] with some additions
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Author: Henry George BOHNB.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820
Author: Mark NeuendorfPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030843564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.
Reading Readings
Author: Joanna GondrisPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637128
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Reading Readings brings together essays by eighteen critics and textual scholars on texts that play a crucially informative role in the history of Shakespeare reception: the eighteenth-century editions. These texts tell, in extraordinary detail, the response of the age that granted Shakespeare his canonical status. They show, too, the development of a new range of critical and bibliographical practices, and display the workings of influential eighteenth-century cultural and market forces.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: Henry G. BohnPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336813132X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Sarah Siddons
Author: Jo WillettPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399018655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family troupe of travelling actors, always poor and often hungry, resorting to foraging for turnips to eat. But before she was 30 she had become a superstar, her fees greater than any actor - male or female - had previously achieved. Her rise was not easy. Her London debut, aged just 20, was a disaster and could have condemned her to poverty and anonymity. But the young actress – already a mother of two - rebuilt her career, returning triumphantly to the capital after years of remorseless provincial touring. She became Britain’s greatest tragic actress, electrifying audiences with her performances. Her shows were sell-outs. Adored by theater audiences, writers, artists and the royal family alike, Sarah grasped the importance of her image. She made sure that every leading portrait painter captured her likeness, so that engravings could be sold to her adoring public. In an eighteenth-century world of vicious satire and gossip, she also battled to manage her reputation. Married young, she took constant pains to portray herself as a respectable and happily married woman, even though her marriage did not live up to this ideal. Sarah’s story is not just about rags to riches; this remarkable woman also redefined the world of theater and became the first celebrity actress.