Author: Theophilus CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland from Shakespeare to the Present Time
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the present time interspersed with a general history of the stage ... Part I. Containing an "Introduction to the General Work" and the life of Barton Booth. To which is prefixed a familiar epistle from Mr. Theophilus Cibber to Mr. William Warburton criticizing the latter's edition of Pope's works
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the Present Time
Author: Theophilus CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 9780371435625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great-Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the Present Time, Interspersed with a General History of the Stage
Author: Theophilus CibberThe Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great-Britain and Ireland, from Shakespear to the Present Time, Interspersed with a General History of the Stage
Author: Theophilus CibberOthello
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834582
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This second edition of Othello updates the first (Bristol Classical Press, 1987), both chronologically and conceptually. It includes consideration of productions from the last seventeen years, and reconsiders earlier material in the light of more recent critical attitudes. Post-colonial and feminist studies have had an impact on the way Othello is perceived and interpreted. The question of blacked-up/black/colour-blind casting and the significance of white and/or black audiences in different political and racial contexts have recently become much more clearly articulated. In the process, Shakespeare himself has not escaped the charge of racism. Equally, the position of Desdemona has received more focussed attention, both as the forbidden object of desire within a racial framework, and as a woman in her own right. This edition takes account of these developments in criticism, in the theatre, on film, and in the adaptations which set out to interrogate Shakespeare's text.
Shakespeare Adaptations from the Early Eighteenth Century
Author: Kristine JohansonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611474604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
This book presents a scholarly edition of five of the first adaptations of Shakespeare from the eighteenth century, the period when Shakespeare became “Shakespeare.” Written by men influential in early Augustan cultural spheres, these adaptations demonstrate how contemporary literary principles and contemporary politics were applied to Shakespeare’s texts. In these adaptations of Henry V, Richard II, Coriolanus, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, we see the various ways that eighteenth-century authors “righted” Shakespeare’s “wrongs”: through the addition and alteration of female characters and romantic sub-plots, the introduction of new scenes, the use of the unities of time and place, and the inclusion of overt moral and political arguments. The critical introduction contextualizes the five adaptations through its discussion of early eighteenth-century theatre and politics. First providing an overview of the state of the theatre at the beginning of the Augustan age, the introduction then examines the multiple political conspiracies that rocked the first years of George I’s reign and that provide the backdrop to these adaptations. Furthermore, the introduction draws particular attention to the importance of the actress in the early eighteenth century, highlighting how Shakespeare’s adaptors drew on actresses’ cultural capital to alter Shakespeare’s texts. Finally, the edition provides a critical introduction to each of the plays. Extensive explanatory notes are provided, which situate further these plays in their contemporary context. In its introduction and explanatory notes, Shakespeare Adaptations supplies an important critical apparatus to five plays which are often noted in the annals of Shakespearean theatrical history with derision. However, this edition reveals how these plays documented their own time and helped shape Shakespeare into the most recognizable literary icon in the Western canon.
What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Harriman-SmithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350171980
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the classical repertoire and offered unprecedented opportunities to female actors. This book demonstrates how an understanding of the practice and theories circulating three hundred years ago can generate new ways of studying and performing plays of all kinds in the present. Eight short essays – on emotions, cultivation, character, voice, action, company, audience, and reflection – provide two things: a vivid introduction to the practice and ideas of the eighteenth-century stage, and the story of how these past practices and ideas were used in collaborative workshops around the UK to create new rehearsal exercises. Designed to work alone or in combination, these exercises are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today. Marrying academic and professional theatre expertise, this book ranges through a vast archive of writing about acting, from private letters and battered promptbooks, through to philosophical treatises and celebrity biographies. The exercises, stories, and ideas shared here capture the strangeness of this material – and sometimes its surprising familiarity, as questions asked of actors then seem to anticipate those questions we ask now. A truly unique offering, What would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century offers a fascinating deep-dive into an important time in theatre history to illuminate practices and processes today.