Author: Edward Fitzball
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Tom Cringle, Or, Mat of the Iron Hand
Author: Edward Fitzball
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850
Author: Arnold Schmidt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315530120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315530120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further.
Night and Morning
Author: John Brougham
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Modern Standard Drama
Author: Epes Sargent
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Barry Sullivan and His Contemporaries
Author: Robert M. Sillard
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Catalogue of the Dramas and Dramatic Poems Contained in the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855
Author: Arthur Herman Wilson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Fall River Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Lust for Fame
Author: Gordon Samples
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786405862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first book on Booth's ten tumultuous years on the stage, with a wealth of rare period illustrations reproduced with special techniques yielding results of better quality than the originals. The book evaluates his performances through newspaper reviews and the recorded opinions of his contemporaries; it also separates Booth the actor from Booth the assassin. Previously unpublished letters are included, some in facsimile. John Wilkes' famous brother Edwin was not necessarily the leading actor of his era: this book indicates why John Wilkes Booth might claim that distinction. One of the appendices is an exhaustive chronology of all his performances, and all fellow cast members.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786405862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first book on Booth's ten tumultuous years on the stage, with a wealth of rare period illustrations reproduced with special techniques yielding results of better quality than the originals. The book evaluates his performances through newspaper reviews and the recorded opinions of his contemporaries; it also separates Booth the actor from Booth the assassin. Previously unpublished letters are included, some in facsimile. John Wilkes' famous brother Edwin was not necessarily the leading actor of his era: this book indicates why John Wilkes Booth might claim that distinction. One of the appendices is an exhaustive chronology of all his performances, and all fellow cast members.