Author: Richard Hindry BarkerPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane
Author: Richard Hindry BarkerPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
Author: Colley CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Contains the best account of the theatre of his day and is an invaluable study of the art of acting as it was practiced by his contemporaries.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. T......... C..... i.e. Theophilus Cibber , comedian. Being a proper sequel to the Apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian. With an historical view of the stage to the present year. Supposed to be written by himself, etc. A satire
Author: Theophilus CibberAn Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Patentee of the Theatre Royal
Author: Colley CibberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Plays of Colley Cibber
Author: Colley CibberPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636244
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This volume provides the first new edition of Cibber's plays since 1777, and the first edition ever published that includes all of his known plays and that incorporates his extensive and often complex revisions. This modern-spelling edition features a comprehensive general introduction to Cibber's career, and separate introductions for each play, detailing sources, performance data, and publication history. Annotations and textual notes are included to allow for additional study.
Introducing Charlotte Charke
Author: Philip Edward BaruthPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The notorious troublemaker Charlotte Charke worked as a novelist, autobiographer, and strolling actress. But it was as a cross-dresser -- both on stage and off -- that she scandalized eighteenth-century England. Known as Mr. Charles Brown, she lived openly with another woman for nearly a decade.Charke, daughter of Colley Cibber, the English playwright and poet laureate (1740), lived a life of masquerade. Her autobiography is a fascinating document of low- and middle-class life in the 1700s and is explored in some detail by Philip E. Baruth. Other contributors to this collection look at Charke, her famous family, and her place within stage and cross-dressing traditions. Felicity A. Nussbaum provides a thought-provoking afterword on the current state of Charke criticism.
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
Author: Colley CibberPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486414720
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Actor, manager, and playwright Cibber was among the most influential people in 18th century London theater. This book chronicles the era's plays, playwrights, and actors, offering a glimpse into modern theater's beginnings.
Colley Cibber
Author: Helene KoonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318522X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
The Red Devil Battery Sign
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780811210478
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
Author: Benjamin Victor