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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Have at you all: or, The Drury-lane journal, by madam Roxana Termagant
Author: Have at You All: Or, The Drury-Lane Journal
Author: Bonnell ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covent-Garden journal
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian NewmanPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855605
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
The Covent Garden Journal
Author: Henry FieldingThe Life of Henry Fielding
Author: Frederick LawrenceThe life of Henry Fielding
Author: Larry KertThe Life of Henry Fielding; with Notices of His Writings, His Times, and His Contemporaries
Author: Frederick LAWRENCE (Barrister-at-law)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tobias Smollett
Author: Lionel KellyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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