Author: David WilliamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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A Letter to David Garrick, Esq. on His Conduct as Principal Manager and Actor at Drury-Lane
Author: David WilliamsA letter to D. Garrick, esq. on his conduct as principal manager and actor at Drury Lane. [By D. Williams, according to a MS. note by J. P. Kemble.]
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Author: David GarrickDavid Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie RitchiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108693245
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theatre's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theatre history and media studies.
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William LowePublisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Sexual Suspects
Author: Kristina StraubPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691258899
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
How the suspect sexuality of actors and actresses shaped early modern debates about gender and sexual identity From the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination. Actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labeled effeminate or even as “sodomites,” and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. Kristina Straub argues that this depiction of players greatly shaped public debates about what made women feminine and men masculine. Considering a wide range of literature by or about players—pamphlets, newspaper reports, theatrical histories, and biographies as well as the public correspondence between Alexander Pope and the famed actor Colley Cibber—she examines the formation of gender roles and sexual identities during a period crucial to modern thinking on these issues. Drawing from feminist-materialist and gay and lesbian theories and historiographies, Sexual Suspects analyzes the complex development of spectacle and spectatorship as gendered concepts. She reveals how national, racial, and class differences contributed to the subjection of players as professional spectacles and how images of race, class, and gender combined to create divisions between “normal” and “deviant” sexuality.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip H. HighfillPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809311309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1
Author: Gail MarshallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.
David Garrick and His Contemporaries
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Garrick and his contemporaries
Author: Brander MatthewsPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Bibliotheca histrionica, a catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of mr. John Field ... which will be sold by auction
Author: John Field (dramatic collector.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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