Author: Thomas Edgar Pemberton
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Life and Writings of T.W. Robertson
Author: Thomas Edgar Pemberton
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Life of William Robertson
Author: Jeffrey R. Smitten
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474404855
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The first modern biography of William Robertson, a key figure of the Scottish EnlightenmentA prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to strengthen religion, not to attack it. As an historian, he helped shape 18th-century historiography. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, he sought to make the church fit for a polite age. And, as principal of the University of Edinburgh, he presided over a flourishing of intellectual inquiry in the midst of the Enlightenment. But despite his European fame, he was a controversial figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words. By foregrounding Robertsons religious outlook, Smitten gives us a more contextualised and nuanced interpretation of Robertson's motives, intentions and beliefs than we have had before.Key Features:Includes new biographical information drawn from archival sources and from all Robertson's largely unpublished correspondenceDiscusses Robertson's works, published and unpublishedAssesses Robertson's achievement based on fresh consideration of all facets of his career as minister, historian and principal
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474404855
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The first modern biography of William Robertson, a key figure of the Scottish EnlightenmentA prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to strengthen religion, not to attack it. As an historian, he helped shape 18th-century historiography. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, he sought to make the church fit for a polite age. And, as principal of the University of Edinburgh, he presided over a flourishing of intellectual inquiry in the midst of the Enlightenment. But despite his European fame, he was a controversial figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, Jeffrey Smitten captures both the man and his work in his own words. By foregrounding Robertsons religious outlook, Smitten gives us a more contextualised and nuanced interpretation of Robertson's motives, intentions and beliefs than we have had before.Key Features:Includes new biographical information drawn from archival sources and from all Robertson's largely unpublished correspondenceDiscusses Robertson's works, published and unpublishedAssesses Robertson's achievement based on fresh consideration of all facets of his career as minister, historian and principal
T.W. Robertson and the Prince of Wales's Theatre
Author: Daniel Barrett
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
T.W. Robertson (1829-1871) was one of the most popular and influential dramatists in the nineteenth-century English theatre. His plays, especially the six comedies he wrote for the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London from 1865 to 1870, were widely performed in England and America through the end of the century, and his best-known work, Caste, is still performed today. His style of writing, his work as a director, and his struggles for better compensation and copyright protection strongly influenced the next generation of dramatists, including Shaw. This is the first book to study all of Robertson's plays within their theatrical, political, and social contexts.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
T.W. Robertson (1829-1871) was one of the most popular and influential dramatists in the nineteenth-century English theatre. His plays, especially the six comedies he wrote for the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London from 1865 to 1870, were widely performed in England and America through the end of the century, and his best-known work, Caste, is still performed today. His style of writing, his work as a director, and his struggles for better compensation and copyright protection strongly influenced the next generation of dramatists, including Shaw. This is the first book to study all of Robertson's plays within their theatrical, political, and social contexts.
The Publisher
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Russia in Britain, 1880-1940
Author: Rebecca Beasley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199660867
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Russia in Britain explores the extent of British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture from the 1880s up to the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199660867
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Russia in Britain explores the extent of British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture from the 1880s up to the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War.
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Catalogue of the Lending Department of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London
Author: Corporation of London. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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The Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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