Author: Charles Beecher HoganPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809304370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
London Stage, 1660-1800
Author: Charles Beecher HoganPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809304370
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The London Stage, 1660-1800
Author: Players, Playwrights, Playhouses
Author: Michael CordnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287190
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.
Women Writers Dramatized
Author: H. Philip BoltonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0720121175
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This volume, arranged alphabetically by original author, provides basic information about stage and screen productions based upon the novels of 40 women writers before 1900. Each entry includes the novel and its publication date, the published texts or dramatizations based upon the book, and the performances of the piece in live theater and film versions, including the location, dates, and playwright or screenwriter (if there was one). For some of the performances the author includes a brief annotation listing the actors and describing the production.
Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705
Author: Kathryn LowerrePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351557629
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.
Index to The London Stage, 1660-1800
Author: Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
This computerized index to the eleven-volume The London Stage, 1660-1800 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1960-68), makes accessible in one volume all the information about the plays, persons, and places as they appeared in each theatrical performance over the span of 140 years covered by the work. Twenty-five thousand entries contain over 500,000 references to the 8,026 pages of the monumental series. The Index thus provides direction for following the careers of hundreds of actors, actresses, dancers, and musicians in the Restoration and eighteenth century. In addition, the Index demonstrates what a wide-ranging document for social, economic, legal, artistic, and dramatic history The London Stage, 1660-1800 is. At a glance, the Index points to the variety and richness of a broad range of London life in the period covered as it impinged on, supported, or drew sustenance from the theatres. A research tool of considerable magnitude, the Index makes available to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines the vast resources of The London Stage, 1660-1800. Without doubt, it is a foundation on which scholars will build for years to come.
The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725
Author: Kathryn LowerrePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886517
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that characterized this rich period. Just as the performing arts were deeply interrelated, the essays presented here, by scholars from a range of fields, engage in dialogue with others in the volume. The opening section examines a famous series of 1701 performances based on the competition between composers to set William Congreve's masque The Judgment of Paris to music. The essays in the central section (the 'mainpiece') showcase performers and productions on the London stage from a variety of perspectives, including English 'tastes' in art and music, the use of dance, the depiction of madness and masculinity in both spoken and musical performances, and genres and modes in the context of contemporary criticism and theatrical practice. A brief afterpiece looks at comic pieces in relation to satire, parody and homage. By bringing together work by scholars of music, dance, and drama, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.
The London Stage, 1660-1800
Author: Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800
Author: Mita ChoudhuryPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In an original contribution to criticism, Interculturalism and Resistance demonstrates the eighteenth-century theatrical culture's ambivalence toward what has recently been described as the "exoticism of multiculturalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author: William Van Lennep