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Author: James WRIGHT (Barrister-at-Law.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Historia Histrionica: an historical account of the English-Stage, shewing the ancient use, improvement, and perfection of dramatick representations in this nation. In a dialogue of Plays and Players. [By James Wright.]
Author: James WRIGHT (Barrister-at-Law.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Boy Actors in Early Modern England
Author: Harry R. McCarthyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009116584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Anecdotal Shakespeare
Author: Paul MenzerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472576179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes – ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes – stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar – and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth.
First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
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Encyclopedia of Literary and Typograpical Anecdote
Author: Charles Henry TimperleyPublisher:
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Universal catalogue of books on art. Quarterly issue of pages extracted from 'Notes and queries'. A-BAENA. (Proof sheets circulated for the purpose of obtaining additions and corrections).
Author: Universal cataloguePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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A Dictionary of Printers and Printing
Author: Charles Henry TimperleyPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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