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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments, Performed on the British Stage
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Arabian Nights in Historical Context
Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191564966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191564966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.
The Sultan; Or, A Peep Into the Seraglio
Author: Isaac Bickerstaffe
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Languages : en
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Description: Manuscript is endorsed with an 'X' and includes a few deletions. The title page states songs are 'One by Gierdini, One by Bach'. There are extensive differences between the printed and manuscript versions, with some parts entirely different.
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Languages : en
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Description: Manuscript is endorsed with an 'X' and includes a few deletions. The title page states songs are 'One by Gierdini, One by Bach'. There are extensive differences between the printed and manuscript versions, with some parts entirely different.
A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage: The guardian
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Category : English farces
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : English farces
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The British Drama
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Sultan ; Or, A Peep Into the Seraglio
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The British Drama: Operas and farces
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Modern British Drama
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The Modern British Drama
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Staging Governance
Author: Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Between 1770 and 1800, transformations in the relationship between metropolitan British society and its colonial holdings, and in the concept of the nation itself, left Britons with a new sense of themselves. Over the same period, the consolidation of the middle classes was accompanied by growing social constraints on sexuality and family life. Staging Governance locates the intersection of these two trends in the representation of British India on the London stage. Theatrical productions, especially those representing colonial life, pushed the limits of public discourse on sexuality and colonialism even as the government made efforts to shape and narrow them. At the same time, official discourse on colonial practices, such as the public trials of Clive and Hastings, became theatrical events themselves. Exploring this rapidly shifting world through a series of original readings of dramatic texts and important moments of oratory, Staging Governance demonstrates how the perceived crises of imperial and domestic Britain joined these spheres in the popular imagination. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Between 1770 and 1800, transformations in the relationship between metropolitan British society and its colonial holdings, and in the concept of the nation itself, left Britons with a new sense of themselves. Over the same period, the consolidation of the middle classes was accompanied by growing social constraints on sexuality and family life. Staging Governance locates the intersection of these two trends in the representation of British India on the London stage. Theatrical productions, especially those representing colonial life, pushed the limits of public discourse on sexuality and colonialism even as the government made efforts to shape and narrow them. At the same time, official discourse on colonial practices, such as the public trials of Clive and Hastings, became theatrical events themselves. Exploring this rapidly shifting world through a series of original readings of dramatic texts and important moments of oratory, Staging Governance demonstrates how the perceived crises of imperial and domestic Britain joined these spheres in the popular imagination. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.