Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Lesser English Comedies of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Lesser English Comedies of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Lesser English Comedies of the Eighteenth Century. Selected and Edited by A. Nicoll
Author: Allardyce NicollLesser English Comedies of the 18th Century
Author: Allardyce NicollEighteenth Century Plays
Author: John HampdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990
Author: Alexander LeggattPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134657897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.
Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background
Author: James Edward TobinPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Bookman's Manual
Author: Bessie GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
In Praise of Comedy
Author: James FeiblemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000579239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
First published in 1939, the original blurb reads: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy. Today, when laughter is stifled in so many countries, an exposition of comedy shows it to have a universal and necessary character. Comedy, as its natures reveals, is one criterion of the state of human culture; it is highly contemporary and requires freedom – but freedom for adventure, not for routine. After a chapter devoted to the explanation of a logical theory of comedy, the modern comedians are examined, and the humour of every one, from the Marx Brothers to surrealism, from Gertrude Stein to Mickey Mouse, from James Joyce to Charlie Chaplin, is shown to be a constant, inherent in the same set of unchanging conditions.
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830
Author: Daniel O'QuinnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521617772
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.