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Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Spouter's Companion
The Spouter's Companion; Or, Theatrical Remembrancer, Containing a Select Collection of the Most Esteemed Prologues and Epilogues ... To which is Added, The Spouter's Medley
Author: The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Brian W. SchneiderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317031350
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a whole. The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama fills a gap in the literature by examining the origins of these texts, and investigating their growing importance and influence in the theatre of the period. This topic-led discussion of prologues and epilogues deals with the origins of these texts, the difficulty of definition, and the way in which many prologues and epilogues appear to interact on such subjects as the composition of the theatre audience and the perceived place of women in such an audience. Author Brian Schneider also examines the reasons for, and the evidence leading to, the apparently sudden burgeoning of these texts after the Restoration, when prologues and epilogues grace nearly all the dramas of the time and become a virtual cottage industry of their own. The second section-a comprehensive list of prologues and epilogues-details play titles, playwrights, theatres and theatre companies, first performance and the earliest edition in which the framing text(s) appears. It quotes the first line of the prologue and/or epilogue and uses the printer's signature to denote the page on which the texts can be found. Further information is provided in notes appended to the relevant entry. A final section deals with 'free-floating' and 'free-standing' framing texts that appear in verse collections, manuscripts, and other publications and to which no play can be positively ascribed. Combining original analysis with carefully compiled, comprehensive reference data, The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama provides a genuinely new angle on the drama of early modern England.
Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 3
Author: Lisa ZunshinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351577638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of the most difficult-to-access texts in the period. It helps cultural historians to examine the place of stagecraft in the eighteenth-century imagination.
Shakespeare and Amateur Performance
Author: Michael DobsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496816
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the unsung achievements of those outside the theatrical profession who have been determined to do Shakespeare themselves. Based on extensive research in previously unexplored archives, this generously illustrated and lively work of theatre history enriches our understanding of how and why Shakespeare's plays have mattered to generations of rude mechanicals and aristocratic dilettantes alike: from the days of the Theatres Royal to those of the Little Theatre Movement, from the pioneering Winter's Tale performed in eighteenth-century Salisbury to the Merchant of Venice performed by Allied prisoners for their Nazi captors, and from the how-to book which transforms Mercutio into Yankee Doodle to the Napoleonic counterspy who used Richard III as a tool of surveillance.
The Sentimental Spouter: Or, Young Actor's Companion: Containing I. A Treatise on Oratory in General, and Theatrical Acquirements in Particular. ... II. A Collection of the Most Celebrated Scenes, Speeches, and Soliloquies, Selected from the Most Admired Tragedies and Comedies, Etc
Author: The Social Life of Books
Author: Abigail WilliamsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
The Young Spouter, Being a New Collection of Prologues and Epilogues
Author: English Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."