Author: William DunlapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke
Author: William DunlapMemoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke, Esquire
Author: William DunlapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke ...
Author: William DunlapMemoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke, Esquire
Author: William DunlapStarring Women
Author: Sara E. LampertPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women's place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals. A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater.
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Library of J.H.V. Arnold
Author: John Harvey Vincent ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Speaking Pictures
Author: Virginia Mason VaughanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838641822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Speaking Pictures explores the complex negotiations between seeing and hearing essential to the audiences' experience in any dramatic performance. Ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, the essays consider a variety of methods that help us recuperate the visual impact of theatrical spectacle before the age of video archives. The anthology takes its discussion of performance beyond the physical space of the theater to examine texts that were meant to be spoken but not literally performed, such as medieval pageantry and closet dramas of the nineteenth century. Many essays focus on the Early Modern English stage, particularly the challenges of recapturing the totality of the original audience's experience in London's open air theaters by the examination of stage directions, text, and archival evidence. The collection concludes with a discussion of the contemporary actor's challenge in physicalizing the language of Early Modern plays, especially Shakespeare's
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature
Author: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ...
Author: New-York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description