Author: Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Aaron Hill
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Author: Julia Swindells
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms — not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime — as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, the Handbook shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.

Author: Chelsea Phillips
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and eighteenth-century London patent theatres even capitalized on their pregnancies. Carrying All Before Her uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women (Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons, and Dorothy Jordan) to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception and interpretation of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development and performance of new plays, and had substantial economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked. Deepening the fields of celebrity, theatre, and women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.