Author: William Kelly (of Leicester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Notices Illustrative of the Drama, and Other Popular Amusements, Chiefly in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: William Kelly (of Leicester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Making of the Modern Police, 1780–1914, Part II vol 4
Author: Paul LawrencePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000561984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1552
Book Description
Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first modern police force. It will be of interest to social and political historians, criminologists and those interested in the development of the detective novel in nineteenth-century literature.
The Transformation of a Peasant Economy
Author: John GoodacrePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351880993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.
Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte
Author: Artemis PreeshlPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317230418
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte examines the ongoing influence of commedia dell’arte on Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the influence of commedia dell’arte improvisation, sight gags, and wordplay on the development of Shakespeare’s plays, Artemis Preeshl blends historical research with extensive practical experience to demonstrate how these techniques might be applied when producing some of Shakespeare's best-known works today. Each chapter focuses on a specific play, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Winter’s Tale, drawing out elements of commedia dell’arte style in the playscripts and in contemporary performance. Including contemporary directors’ notes and interviews with actors and audience members alongside Elizabethan reviews, criticism, and commentary, Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte presents an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance theatre.
Elizabethan Theatre History: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1664-1979
Author: David StevensPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105175219
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Formerly published as "English Renaissance Theatre History: A Reference Guide" by G. K. Hall in 1982, this annotated bibliography of scholarship in the field of Elizabethan theatre history has been out of print for almost 30 years. Most academic libraries have a copy in their reference departments, and this classic is now available for the personal libraries of students and scholars in the field. It has never been easier to review the academic literature in such areas as reconstructions of Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse, and other public and private playhouses of Shakespeare's London; the court masques; Inigo Jones; Richard Burbage and other actors of the time; the Lord Mayor's Shows; Puritan opposition to the stage; and other such topics. The terminal date of 1979 reflects the date of original production, but with this tool it is a simple matter for the scholar to update his or her review of the literature. The comprehensive Index is invaluable, and Stevens also provides a preface and introduction.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
Author: Kirk MelnikoffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108642063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642, pt. 1-2
Author: Alfred Rayney WallerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description