Author: John DoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
"Their Majesties' Servants:" Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean: Actors - Authors - Audiences
Author: John DoranTheir Majesties' Servants: Annals of the English Stage (Complete)
Author: Dr. John DoranPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
It is unnecessary to apologise for a new edition of Dr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. The two editions already published have been for many years out of print, and the first is so rare that copies of it bring a high price whenever they occur for sale. And this demand is not a mere bibliographical accident, for the book has held for many years a recognised position as the standard popular history of the English stage. The admirable work of Genest, indispensable as it is to every writer on theatrical history, and to every serious student of the stage, is in no sense a popular work, and is, indeed, rather a collection of facts towards a history than a history itself. In preparing this new edition every effort has been made to add to its interest by the introduction of portraits and other illustrations, and to its authority as a book of reference, by correcting those errors which are scarcely to be avoided by a writer working among the confused, inaccurate, and contradictory documents of theatrical history. No one who has not ventured into this maze can conceive the difficulty of keeping the true path, and I can imagine nothing better calculated to sap one's self-confidence than the task of noting the false turnings made by such a writer as Dr. Doran. I can hardly hope that my own work, light as it is in comparison with his, will be found free from sins of omission, and even of commission. My principle has been to pass no error, however trifling; but, at the same time, I have not thought myself entitled to discuss matters of opinion, or to criticise, either directly or indirectly, Dr. Doran's treatment of his subject. Thus it would be easy to supplement the information regarding the ancient theatres and the theatre of Shakspeare's time contained in the first and second chapters; but, as Dr. Doran obviously intended that his real work should begin with the Restoration Theatres, I have not interfered with his scheme. I trust that, in this, as in other respects, my work has been done in a spirit free from captiousness. The illustrations to this edition have been chosen, not from the book "illustrator's" point of view, but with a serious desire to increase its value as a history. In the case of the portraits, those which Dr. Doran specially mentions, have, wherever it was possible, been selected, and in every instance I believe the portrait given is an accurate and trustworthy likeness. The headpieces, intended to form a supplement to the full-page illustrations, include portraits of persons whose importance scarcely justified their place among the larger pictures, drawings of theatres, and of actors in character. The tailpieces are reproductions of Sayer's beautiful little drawings of Garrick and his contemporaries in their best characters; and in their case no chronological arrangement is possible.
“Their Majesties' Servants.” Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edward Kean. Actors-Authors-Audiences
Author: John DoranGilles Peress and Chris Klatell: Annals of the North
Author: Chris KlatellPublisher: Steidl
ISBN: 9783958297937
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
An almanac to the world of Gilles Peress' Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, delineating the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland In Annals of the North, New York-based photographer Gilles Peress (born 1946) and writer and lawyer Chris Klatell combine essays, stories, photographs, documents and testimonies to open up for the reader the complicated and contradictory storylines that emerged from the conflict in the North of Ireland. Weighed down by 800 years of colonization but only the size of Connecticut (with half its population), Northern Ireland provides a remarkably intimate stage set. Interweaving text and image, Annals of the Northexamines the multifaceted struggle between Irish Republicans and Nationalists, Protestant Unionists and Loyalists, and the imperial British, to explore broader themes of empire, retribution and betrayal, as well as the tense dialectic between the ordinary demands of everyday life and periodic explosions of violence. The book is at once wide-ranging yet deeply personal and political, alternately dense and humorous, legal and literary.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Annals of the Liverpool Stage
Author: R. J. BroadbentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ...
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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