Author: Edward FitzballPublisher:
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Fitzball's Plays
Author: Edward FitzballThe Terrible Fitzball
Author: Larry Stephen CliftonPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A study of Edward Fitzball, a melodramatic dramatist of 19th- century England, whose primary themes of horror, crime, and madness, reflected the insecurities of the time and foreshadowed the sensationalist media of ours. His life, the contemporary society and theater, and his dramatic principles and influences, are all considered. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900
Author: Amnon KabatchnikPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538106183
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1800 and 1900. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Maritana. An Opera in Three Acts. [By E. Ball, Afterwards Fitzball.]
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Author: The Orient on the Victorian Stage
Author: Edward ZiterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818292
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the impact of the Middle East and the Orient on writing and performance in nineteenth-century British theatre.
British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850
Author: Arnold SchmidtPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315530120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further.
A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109314
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
A History of Early Nineteenth Centry Drama 1800-1850
Author: British Drama of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711165X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Frederick Burwick reveals how the most volatile developments in British drama from the 1790s to 1830s took place in the industrial provinces.
Author: Library of Congress