Author: Malcolm ElwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Playgoer's Handbook to Restoration Drama
Author: Malcolm ElwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Author: Deborah Payne FiskPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588126
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
Author: Matthew C. AugustinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192690884
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
Author: Robert C. EvansPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826498507
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of current research.
The Playgoer's Handbook to Restoration Drama
Author: Malcolm ElwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Style for Actors
Author: Robert BartonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367186104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Style for Actors is an award-winning handbook and the definitive guide to roles in historical drama. Anyone who has ever struggled with capes, fans, swords, doublets and crinolines should make this third edition their constant companion. The past is a foreign country, and this outstanding book is concerned with exploring it from the actor's point of view. Specific guides to each major period give readers a clear map to discover a range from Greek, Elizabethan, Restoration and Georgian theatre to more contemporary stylings, including Futurism, Surrealism and Postmodernism. New material in this edition covers commedia dell'arte and non-Western forms of theatre, theatrical fusion, and developments in musicals and Shakespeare. The book's references, images, resource lists and examples have all been updated to support today's diverse performers. Robert Barton takes great care to present the actor with the roles and genres that will most commonly confront them. Containing a huge resource of nearly 150 exercises, suggestions for scene study and applications not only for theatrical performance but also for stylistic challenges in the reader's own offstage life, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of Acting and Drama.
John Dryden
Author: David J. LattPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452910545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Drama
Author: Geoffrey WhitworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Style For Actors 2nd Edition
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135258392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Copyeditor's Handbook
Author: Amy EinsohnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520932562
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook explains what copyeditors do, what they look for when they edit a manuscript, and how they develop the editorial judgment needed to make sound decisions. This revised edition reflects the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.), the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.), and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.).