Author: James HoggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Robert Browning and the Victorian Theatre
Author: James HoggRobert Browning and the Victorian Theatre
Author: James (Philologe) HoggRobert Browning and the Victorian Theatre
Author: James (Philologe) HoggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Victorian Writers and the Stage
Author: R. PearsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137504684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Author: Deborah VlockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521640848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public property by the time they were published, circulating as part of a current theatrical repertoire well known to many Victorian readers. In this 1998 study, Deborah Vlock argues that novels - and novel-readers - were in effect created by the popular theatre in the nineteenth century, and that the possibility of reading and writing narrative was conditioned by the culture of the stage. Vlock resuscitates the long-dead voices of Dickens' theatrical sources, which now only tentatively inhabit reviews, scripts, fiction and non-fiction narratives, but which were everywhere in Dickens' time: voices of noted actors and actresses and of popular theatrical characters. She uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and reconstructs the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
Robert Browning
Author: S. WoodPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 033399261X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing.
Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture
Author: A. HeinrichPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230236790
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression.
Church and Stage in Victorian England
Author: Richard FoulkesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521453202
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
During the reign of Queen Victoria, herself an ardent theatregoer as well as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, a remarkable rapprochement was effected between the Church and the stage. This 1997 book explores the implications for the theatre of the great religious movements of the period: Tractarianism, Christian Socialism and Latitudinarianism. This central relationship is seen in the context of other important themes in Victorian cultural history such as censorship, urbanization, transport, leisure, self-improvement and women's emancipation. The volume contains portraits of significant churchmen, dramatists, actors and actresses, including Newman and Keble, Bulwer Lytton and Shaw, Irving, Fanny Kemble and Ellen Terry. They were amongst the influential figures who participated in the search for a common culture which preoccupied the nineteenth century. To the Victorians the Church and the theatre were important parts of everyday life; in this study the two institutions are explored in relation not only to each other but also to the social, economic and intellectual movements of the period.
Robert and Elizabeth
Author: Ron GrainerPublisher: Samuel French Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The year 1845 finds the Moulton Barrett family of London tight in the grip of a tyrannical father. His invalid daughter Elizabeth is gaining a brilliant reputation as a writer. Her verses reach Robert Browning who falls in love with her before they have ever met. Browning sweeps into Elizabeth's life with the invigorating force of a sea breeze and her father senses that his absolute authority is in danger. Tension mounts as Edward Moulton Barrett and Robert Browning engage in a struggle for Elizabeth's life and happiness. A big hit in London's West End.10 women, 30 men
Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare
Author: Robert SawyerPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Swinburne, it may also be used to promote more conservative policies and literary interpretations in other writers such as Robert Browning and Charles Dickens.".