Author: Bonnell ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covent-Garden journal
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Have at You All: Or, The Drury-Lane Journal
Author: Bonnell ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covent-Garden journal
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Have at you all: or, The Drury-lane journal, by madam Roxana Termagant
Author: The Covent Garden Journal
Author: Henry FieldingCharles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian NewmanPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855605
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
Henry Fielding
Author: Thomas LockwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136171312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.
Tobias Smollett
Author: Lionel KellyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415134269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.
The True Patriot and Related Writings
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819551276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Fielding’s political pamphlets of the Jacobite uprising.
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Author: Manushag N. PowellPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611484170
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal,The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several “paper wars” waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don’t only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die.
Author: Frederick Lawrence
Author: Larry Kert