Author: Carl Joseph StratmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research
Author: Carl Joseph StratmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research
Author: Carl Joseph StratmanPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This first comprehensive compilation of twentieth-century scholarship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century drama provides a basis for future research and is an invaluable reference work. Items are arranged alphabetically under general headings--e.g., acting, criticism, periodicals, music, theology--as well as alphabetically by surname of actor, actress, dramatist, musician, etc. Copiously indexed.
Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research Bibliography, 1961-1968
Author: Carl Joseph StratmanPublisher: Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Author: David O'ShaughnessyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108853579
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research
Author: Carl Joseph StratmanPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This first comprehensive compilation of twentieth-century scholarship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century drama provides a basis for future research and is an invaluable reference work. Items are arranged alphabetically under general headings--e.g., acting, criticism, periodicals, music, theology--as well as alphabetically by surname of actor, actress, dramatist, musician, etc. Copiously indexed.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre
Author: William J. BurlingPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A biography of the actor who starred in the popular television series, Family Ties, as well as in a number of motion pictures and who recently announced that he has Parkinson's disease.
Restoration Staging, 1660-74
Author: Tim KeenanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317064682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.
The Public’s Open to Us All
Author: Laura EngelPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527561364
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
“The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women’s status in the public world became the focus of cultural attention both on and off the stage. In addition to the appearance of the first actresses during this period female playwrights, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, theatrical managers and entrepreneurs emerged as skillful and often demanding professionals. In this variety of new roles, eighteenth-century women redefined shifting notions of femininity by challenging traditional representations of female subjectivity and contributing to the shaping of eighteenth-century society’s attitudes, tastes, and cultural imagination. Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century studies reflects a heightened interest in fame, the rise of celebrity culture, and new ways of understanding women’s participation as both private individuals and public professionals. What is unique to the body of essays presented here is the authors’ focus on performance as a means of thinking about the ways in which women occupied, negotiated, re-imagined, and challenged the world outside of the traditional domestic realm. The authors employ a range of historical, literary, and theoretical approaches to the connections among women and performance, and in doing so make significant contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, theatre history, gender studies, and performance studies.
The Country Wife
Author: William WycherleyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408179911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services – the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the years. The seventeenth century libertine king Charles II saw it twice, and is said to have joined the 'dance of the cuckolds' at the end of one performance; the eighteenth century actor-playwright David Garrick declared it 'the most licentious play in the English language'; the Victorian Macaulay compared it to a skunk, because it was 'too filthy to handle and too noisome even to approach'. Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece. Sexually frank, and as ready to criticise marriage as infidelity, the virtuosity, linguistic energy, brilliant wit, naughtiness and complexity of this ribald play have made it a staple of the modern stage. This student edition contains a lengthy, entirely new introduction, by leading scholar, Tiffany Stern, with a background on the author, structure, characters, genre, themes, original staging and performance history, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.