Author: Richard BromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
“The” Jovial Crew
A Jovial Crew
Author: Richard BromePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408140128
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is it? Whilst maintaining its unremitting good humour, A Jovial Crew shows that the literary depiction of beggar life, and real beggar life, are profoundly different. Daily aspects of life in the beggar world – poverty, dirt, licentiousness – come as a surprise to the well-born, who are ultimately led to question their own values. The last production mounted before theatres were closed for the English Civil War, A Jovial Crew's exploration of class, commonwealth, kinship and kingship shows an intense engagement with contemporary politics. This edition, with dedicated sections on music and language in the play, argues that A Jovial Crew also offers a nostalgic farewell to English theatre. It explores Brome's attitude to performance and print, and follows A Jovial Crew from its first, Caroline staging, to its later manifestations as a Restoration comedy, an eighteenth-century opera, and a twentieth-century proto-Marxist tragicomedy.
A Joviall Crew: or, the Merry Beggar. Presented in a comedie, etc
Author: Richard BromeThe Jovial Crew. A comic-opera ... Altered from Richard Brome's comedy. With additional songs by E. Roome, M. Concanen and Sir W. Yonge. With the airs prefix'd to each song
Author: The Jovial Crew. A Comic-opera ... [Altered from Richard Brome's Comedy. With Additional Songs by E. Roome, M. Concanen and Sir W. Yonge.] With the Airs Prefix'd to Each Song
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Author: Richard BromeA History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging
Author: Charles James Ribton-TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Richard Brome
Author: Matthew StegglePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063589
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Richard Brome was the leading comic playwright of 1630s London. Starting his career as a manservant to Ben Jonson, he wrote a string of highly successful comedies which were influential in British theatre long after Brome's own playwriting career was cut short by the closure of the theatres in 1642.This book offers the first full-length chronological account of Brome's life and works, drawing on a wide range of recently rediscovered manuscript sources. Each of the surviving plays is discussed in relation to its social and political context, and its sense of place. A final chapter reviews Brome's enduring stageworthiness into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the most recent Brome revivals.
A collection of play bills of the New theatre royal, English opera house, Strand. 1819-33
Author: London Lyceum theatrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera 1728-2004
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401203660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
When Richard Steele remarked that the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at, he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage.