Author: Charles Harrison (Editor of Moonshine.)Publisher:
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Category : Amateur theater
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Theatricals and Tableaux Vivants for Amateurs ...
Author: Charles Harrison (Editor of Moonshine.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur theater
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Theatricals and Tableaux Vivants
Author: Charles HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume design
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Everyone’s Theater
Author: Michael MeeuwisPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
Amateur Theatricals
Author: C. Lang NeilPublisher:
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Amateur Theatrical Handbook
Author: Harold MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Schoolroom and Home Theatricals
Author: Arthur WaughPublisher:
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Victorian Theatricals
Author: Sara HudstonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408148382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890s. The section 'Theatrical Behaviour' looks at the world of the audience and includes extracts from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park; Thackeray's Vanity Fair; an anonymous playlet called Acting Proverbs; and an extract from Marie Corelli's novel Sorrows of Satan. In 'Fun and Freaks' we explore the world of popular, sensationalist entertainment through the eyes of Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dion Boucicault and others. In the final section, 'Society', we have the scripts for four principal melodramas and serious plays of the age: The Factory Lad by John Walker; Society by T.W. Robertson; The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero.
Select Catalogue and Guide
Author: Islington (England). Public Libraries CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Amateur Stage
Author: Roorbach's Descriptive Catalogue of Acting Plays, Guide Books, and Amateur Theatrical Goods ...
Author: Roorbach & CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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