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Author: Charles DibdinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Ephesian Matron or The Widow's Tears. A Comic Serenata by the Author of Love in a Village [I. Bickerstaffe], as it is performed at Ranelagh House
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Author: Charles DibdinThe Widow's Tears
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780416030204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The roaring girle, or, Moll Cut-purse. The widow's tears. The white devil, or, Vittoria Corombona. The hog hath lost his pearl. The foure prentises of London, with the conquest of Jerusalem
Author: Isaac ReedPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The comedies: The blind beggar of Alexandria. An humourous day's mirth. All fools. May-day. The gentleman usher. Monsieur D'Olive. The widow's tears. The masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. Eastward ho. The ball. Sir Giles Goosecap. Introduction and notes
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677
Author: Richard PenningtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529488
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A catalogue of over 2,700 etchings, which form an important pictorial chronicle of seventeenth-century England.
Francis Barlow
Author: Edward HodnettPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Edgar Evans: Extempore
Author: Bob Little Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1908941022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A biography of Edgar Evans, principal tenor at the Royal Opera House (1946–1975) and, later, a teacher at the Royal College of Music. This is an e-book version of a biography of Edgar Evans, principal tenor at the Royal Opera House (1946–1975) and, later, a teacher at the Royal College of Music. However, it is far more than a thorough, engaging and at times very amusing biography of an acclaimed performer at one of the world’s top opera houses in the 20th century. It is also an insightful account of what national and international artistic life was like at the time. Woven into the account of Edgar Evans’ life are fascinating anecdotes about famous people of the day set against a colourful local historical background. The stories are made all the more intriguing by the inclusion of copies of scanned documents and black and white photographs of performances and performers. What may interest you about the life of Edgar Evans Edgar Evans will be best remembered for creating the role of Hermann in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In all, he sang some forty-five roles (most of them major ones) at Covent Garden over a period that stretched from 1946 -when, as one of its three principal tenors, he became a founder member of the Covent Garden Opera Company – to his retirement in 1975. In that time, he sang more roles and gave more performances at the Opera House than any other artist. Subsequently, he conducted his share of masterclasses and adjudicated at singing competitions. Even in his later years he had a regular procession of singers all anxious to learn his secrets of vocal technique and his opinion of their vocal talents and abilities. On his retirement from Covent Garden, Edgar was invited – by Sir David Willcocks – to join the teaching staff at the Royal College of Music. For ten years he taught vocal technique there and many singers can pay tribute to his masterly teaching. He sang with leading singers and with leading orchestras, both in this country and on the Continent, and worked with leading conductors including Erich Kleiber, Karl Rankl, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Georg Solti, Otto Klemperer, Rudolf Kempe and Carlo Maria Giulini. Among those to whom he felt he owed a special debt of gratitude was Peter Gellhorn who, as a répétiteur and conductor at Covent Garden, taught Edgar the part of Hermann in The Queen of Spades in the remarkably short time of just fourteen hours. He sang the title role in Peter Grimes and Captain Vere in Billy Budd after Peter Pears had initally brought these characters to theatrical life. He sang Dmitri in Boris Godunov (in English under Clemens Krause and, later, in Russian – being taught the part by David Lloyd Jones and Oda Slobotskyia), Steva in Janacek’s Jenufa under Kubelik, the drum major in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck under Kleiber, Calaf in Turandot under Barbirolli, and many more roles. Barbirolli and Kleiber were among Edgar’s favourite conductors, closely followed by Kempe and Giulini. There are a few recordings of Edgar Evans’ performances. They and this book are a tangible legacy of a performer whose life and influence deserves the recognition of a wider audience.
The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing
Author: Natalya BaldygaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135099278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations – the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767–69). This collection of 104 short essays represents one of the eighteenth century’s most important critical engagements with the theater and its potential to promote humanistic discourse. Lessing’s essays are an immensely erudite, deeply engaged, witty, ironic, and occasionally scathing investigation of European theatrical culture, bolstered by deep analysis of Aristotelian dramatic theory and utopian visions of theater as a vehicle for human connection. This is the first complete English translation of Lessing's text, with extensive annotations that place the work in its historical context. For the first time, English-language readers can trace primary source references and link Lessing’s observations on drama, theory, and performance not only to the plays he discusses, but also to dramatic criticism and acting theory. This volume also includes three introductory essays that situate Lessing’s work both within his historical time period and in terms of his influence on Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment theater and criticism. The newly translated Hamburg Dramaturgy will speak to dramaturgs, directors, and humanities scholars who see theater not only for entertainment, but also for philosophical and political debate.
Loving Dr. Johnson
Author: Helen DeutschPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226143856
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy-both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains. Even today, Johnson is an enduring symbol of individuality, authority, masculinity, and Englishness, ultimately lending a style and a name—the Age of Johnson—to the eighteenth-century English literary canon. Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism—a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself. An absorbing look at one iconic author and his afterlives, Loving Dr. Johnson will be of enormous value to students of English literature and literary scholars keenly interested in canon formation.
Memoir. Blinde begger of Alexandria. Humerous dayes mirth. All fooles. Monsieur D'Olive. Gentleman vsher. Notes
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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