Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631065
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Our Dramatic Heritage: Classical drama and the early Renaissance
Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631065
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism
Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634110
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Our Dramatic Heritage
Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632673
Category : European drama
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
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'.
Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age
Author: Philip George HillPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631072
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Dramma Per Musica
Author: Reinhard StrohmPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.
The Invention of the Oral
Author: Paula McDowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: Denise L. MontgomeryPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081087721X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
Author: Robin HealeyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442642696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1185
Book Description
"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.
Comic Drama
Author: W. D. HowarthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000579212
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Ever since comedies were first performed in the ancient world, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights and critics. Originally published in 1978, this volume does not attempt a precise definition, but reviews the various interpretations that have been put forward through the ages, taking as evidence important theoretical writings as well as the plays themselves, and pointing out not only common features but also notable exceptions. The comic drama of Western Europe since the Renaissance is here surveyed in a series of chapters devoted principally to the tradition of European comedy as it developed in the major national literatures. The perspective is expanded to include, on the one hand, the origins in classical Greece and Rome and, on the other, the influence of cinema, radio and television comedy at the time – American as well as European. A structural basis for the volume as a whole is provided in an analytical introduction, where the essential problems are defined: such issues as the relationship between comedy and satire, comedy and farce; the distinction between laughter and smile; the respective claims of realism and fantasy; the role of plot and of dialogue; the place of sentiment and of moral teaching; and the possibility of comic catharsis. In this way the nature and evolution of European comedy is presented in an original and coherent form, not only offering an invaluable aid to students seeking guidance in literature of which they are not making a specialist study, but stimulating the more experienced reader to think again about familiar plays.