Author: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, England)Publisher:
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Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this Present Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1818
Author: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, England)Publisher:
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Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden this Present Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1818, (by Particular Desire) the Comedy of The Jealous Wife ...
Author: Covent Garden TheatrePublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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The Last Night of Miss O'Neill's Acting Before Christmas
Author: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, England)Publisher:
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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
Author: John C. GreenePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611461197
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evening’s entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatre’s daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each component’s entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasons’s offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of “special Irish interest.” The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important “minors.” This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories.
Woman's Love; Or, The Triumph of Patience
Author: Thomas WadeMr. Fawcett's Farewell Benefit, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, this Present Thursday, May 20, 1830
Author: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (London, England)Publisher:
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John Bull
Author: The Illustrated London News
Author: Scott Dramatized
Author: H. Philip BoltonPublisher: Burns & Oates
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Today little is known about the important theatrical process of popularising a literary product. The works of Sir Walter Scott, like Charles Dickens, form a very large body of staged novels. Some 5000 dramatic performances - plays, operas, films, radio and television dramas - derived from the novels and narrative poems of Sir Walter Scott are listed here. Dramatizations are arranged chronologically and each entry gives title of drama, author, date of production/broadcast, publication/manuscript details and comment.
Memoirs of the Court of George III
Author: Michael KasslerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040156126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1631
Book Description
George III was one of the longest reigning British monarchs, ruling over most of the English speaking world from 1760 to 1820. Despite his longevity, George’s reign was one of turmoil. Britain lost its colonies in the War of American Independence and the European political system changed dramatically in the wake of the French Revolution. Closer to home, problems with the King’s health led to a constitutional crisis. Charlotte Papendiek’s memoirs cover the first thirty years of George III’s reign, while Mary Delany’s letters provide a vivid portrait of her years at Windsor. Lucy Kennedy was another long-serving member of court whose previously unpublished diary provides a great deal of new detail about the King’s illness. Finally, the Queen herself provides further insights in the only two extant volumes of her diaries, published here for the first time. The edition will be invaluable to scholars of Georgian England as well as those researching the French and American Revolutions and the history and politics of the Regency period more widely.