Author: Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Timour the Tartar
Author: Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Staging the Peninsular War
Author: Susan Valladares
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050703
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050703
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Performing Animals
Author: Karen Raber
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271080787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship. In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, Performing Animals questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence. The contributors discuss the role of animals in venues as varied as medieval plays, natural histories, dissections, and banquets, and they raise provocative questions about animals’ agency. In so doing, they demonstrate the innovative potential of thinking beyond the boundaries of the present in order to dismantle the barriers that have traditionally divided human from animal. From fleas to warhorses to animals that “perform” even after death, this delightfully varied volume brings together examples of animals made to “act” in ways that challenge obvious notions of performance. The result is an eye-opening exploration of human-animal relationships and identity that will appeal greatly to scholars and students of animal studies, performance studies, and posthuman studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Todd Andrew Borlik, Pia F. Cuneo, Kim Marra, Richard Nash, Sarah E. Parker, Rob Wakeman, Kari Weil, and Jessica Wolfe.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271080787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship. In exploring the human-animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, Performing Animals questions what it means for an animal to “perform,” examines how conceptions of this relationship have evolved over time, and explores whether and how human understanding of performance is changed by an animal’s presence. The contributors discuss the role of animals in venues as varied as medieval plays, natural histories, dissections, and banquets, and they raise provocative questions about animals’ agency. In so doing, they demonstrate the innovative potential of thinking beyond the boundaries of the present in order to dismantle the barriers that have traditionally divided human from animal. From fleas to warhorses to animals that “perform” even after death, this delightfully varied volume brings together examples of animals made to “act” in ways that challenge obvious notions of performance. The result is an eye-opening exploration of human-animal relationships and identity that will appeal greatly to scholars and students of animal studies, performance studies, and posthuman studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Todd Andrew Borlik, Pia F. Cuneo, Kim Marra, Richard Nash, Sarah E. Parker, Rob Wakeman, Kari Weil, and Jessica Wolfe.
Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840
Author: Jane Moody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521039864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521039864
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological Society of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The European Magazine, and London Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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All the Year Round
Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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All the Year Round
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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The Princes of India
Author: Sir Edward Robert Sullivan
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Publisher: London : [s.n.]
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Nineteenth Century
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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