Author: Jane MillingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane MillingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane MillingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre
Author: Simon TrusslerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794305
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.
The Cambridge History of British Theatre: Since 1895
Author: The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Joseph DonohuePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521650687
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Volume Two of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theatre, interdicted since 1642, and follows the far-reaching development of the form over two centuries and more to 1895. Descriptions of the theatres, actors and actresses, acting companies, dramatists and dramatic genres over the period are augmented by accounts of the audiences, politics and morality, scenography, provincial theatre, theatrical legislation, the long-drawn-out competition of major and minor theatres, and the ultimate revocation of the theatrical monopoly of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, initiating a new era. Chapters on two representative years, 1776 and 1895, are complemented by chapters on two phenomenal productions, The Beggar's Opera and The Bells, as well as by studies of popular theatre, including music hall, sexuality on the Victorian stage and other social and cultural contexts.
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Author: David WilesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 3
Author: Baz KershawThe Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 1
Author: Peter ThomsonThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre
Author: Richard BeadlePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472043
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.