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Author: David O'Shaughnessy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317323734 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317323734 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131547624X Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
Best known for "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836) is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. This book offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of Godwin as a writer and political figure.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317323742 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author: Julia Swindells Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191655201 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 2541
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The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 -- a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms -- not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime -- as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, the Handbook shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442642432 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 313
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"In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."
Author: David O'Shaughnessy Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108853579 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Author: Scott Charles Campbell
Author: Charles Kegan Paul
Author: Beverly Sprague Allen
Author: Julia Swindells
Author: Charles Kegan Paul
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies
Author: David O'Shaughnessy