Author: Joseph Atkinson (Dramatist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Love in a Blaze! A Comic Opera. In Three Acts. By Joseph Atkinson ... As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, Dublin
Author: Joseph Atkinson (Dramatist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
MLN.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Jonathan the First [in Tyler's The Contrast]
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Author: Marston BalchA Register of First Performances of English Operas and Semi-operas from the 16th Century to 1980
Author: Eric Walter WhitePublisher: London : Society for Theatre Research
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Contrast
Author: Cynthia A. KiernerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Rathmines Road
Author: Deirdre KinahanPublisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848427778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Will truth out? Set over one evening, Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan is a play that rages in a tiny room. Fraught, funny and ferocious, it testifies to the pain of carrying the memory of sexual assault throughout a lifetime. A play about secret trauma and public revelation, Rathmines Road bristles with tension and interrogates catharsis to ask: when and how do we take responsibility? The play premiered at the Abbey Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2018, previewing at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, in a co-production between Fishamble and the Abbey Theatre.
Ulysses
Author: Letters from India
Author: Emily EdenInterpreting Chekhov
Author: Geoffrey BornyPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1920942688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.