Author: J ..... F ..... Pennie
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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: John Fitzgerald Pennie
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Richard W. Schoch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521622813
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, renowned for their unprecendented attention to antiquarian detail in sets, costumes, and properties (many of which are shown in the book's illustrations). These productions provided audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to participate in the Victorian obsession with history, especially of the medieval period. Using valuable primary sources, including promptbooks, scenic designs, costume sketches and contemporary reviews, Richard Schoch places mid-Victorian attitudes towards the theatre in the context of major intellectual and political movements of the age. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre history, Shakespeare studies and Victorian culture.

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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Patrick Wright
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic about the military takeover of the village of Tyneham, with a new introduction taking in Brexit and a new wave of British nationalism. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up their things and filed out of their homes into temporary accommodation, yet Tyneham refused to die. Although it was never returned to its pre-war occupants and owners, Tyneham would persist through a long and extraordinary afterlife in the English imagination. It was said that Churchill himself had promised that the villagers would be able to return once the war was over, and that the post-war Labour government was responsible for the betrayal of that pledge. Both the accusation and the sense of grievance would reverberate through many decades after that. Back in print and with a brand new introduction, this book explores how Tyneham came to be converted into a symbol of posthumous England, a patriotic community betrayed by the alleged humiliations of post-war national history. Both celebrated and reviled at the time of its first publication in 1995, The Village that Died for England is indispensable reading for anyone trying to understand where Brexit came from — and where it might be leading us.

Author: J. Waldie
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Public Library of New South Wales
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Pages : 618

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