Author: Ernest Bradless WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sheridan to Robertson; a study of the nineteenth
Author: Ernest Bradless WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sheridan to Robertson, Etc. [Enlarged Photographic Reprint to the Edition of 1926. With Plates.].
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Author: Ernest Bradlee WATSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Sheridan to Robertson
Author: Ernest Bradlee WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Sheridan to Robertson
Author: Ernest Bradlee WatsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494117832
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
The Robertson, Purcell and Related Families
Author: Laura Purcell RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sheridan to Robertson
Author: Ernest Bradlee WatsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265606209
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from Sheridan to Robertson: A Study of the Nineteenth-Century London Stage About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Journal of the Assembly During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2592
Book Description
The Chicago Blue Book of Selected Names of Chicago and Suburban Towns
Author: Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence
Author: Conrad BrunstormPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480396
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Ambitious polymath Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was the lynchpin of the most fascinating family in Anglo-Irish literary history. The godson (and future biographer) of Jonathan Swift, the son of Thomas Sheridan senior, a talented poet and scholar, the husband of the novelist Frances Sheridan and the father of the dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, this new study reconstructs this much maligned transitional Sheridan as a monumental figure in his own right. This book discusses the varied and relentless energies of Thomas Sheridan in an attempt to recover an overall purpose and agenda which unites his adventures as actor-manager of Smock Alley Theatre Dublin with his pioneering campaigns in the fields of oratory, elocution and lexicography. Infused with civic republican zeal (derived in part from close reading of Montesquieu and an admiration for native North American culture) Sheridan believed that humanity in general and Anglophones in particular suffered from a cultural and political enervation as a result of the cultivation of written language at the expense of spoken language. It is argued that 'republicanism' functioned more as a figure of political virtue than as a preferred mode of government. Enjoying particular success in Edinburgh with his public lectures, Sheridan sought to unify the peoples of Britain and Ireland by making the principles of elocution available to all, effectively de-centralising the linguistic claims of metropolitan centre. The Sheridan who emerges from this study is a phonocentric obsessive who left an abiding mark on the future of both acting and speech-making, but whose limitations are equally interesting and influential. In seeking to tame the riotous eighteenth-century stage, he anticipated (unknowingly) a far more passive 'cinematic' form of spectator entertainment (accelerated by his mentorship of the great Sarah Siddons, arguably the first player to be experienced as a 'movie star'). His dogged focus on the quality rather than the content of political debate led to his being permanently estranged from the mainstream of Irish patriotic writing while his inability to engage the economics of cultural production produces a tragic-comic figure whose disasters are as deserving of scrutiny as his successes. His genuine successes meanwhile include dignifying the profession of theatre player in a way that only Garrick could rival, helping to democratize oratory throughout the English speaking world, as well as helping to establish a continuity of specifically Irish eloquence that has subsequently become a key strand in Irish nationalist practice. Despite being a member of the British Establishment in Ireland, his patriotic pedagogy would have long-lasting, unanticipated and radical consequences. The idea of making patriotic speeches that evoke the memory of previous patriotic speeches may be Sheridan's most important and explosive contribution to his native country.
Empire at the Periphery
Author: Christian J. KootPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749429
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Examines the networks that connected British settlers in New York & the Caribbean & Dutch traders in the Netherlands & in the Dutch colonies in North America & the Caribbean, demonstrating that these interimperial relationships formed a core part of commercial activity in the early Atlantic World, operating alongside British trade.