Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317323734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108853579
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.
Author: William Godwin
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Julia Swindells
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0199600309
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides a comprehensive guide to theatre of the Georgian era across the range of dramatic forms.
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442642432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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"In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library."
Author: Marcie Frank
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684481678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Rolf P. Lessenich
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899719867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the hostile counter-movement of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, still going strong at the time of and in the decades following the French Revolution due to support from the ruling Establishment (the ancien regime of the Crown and Church of England). Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heteretical amalgam of dissenting new schools, which threatened the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. The acrimonious debates in aesthetics and politics were conducted with the traditional strategies of the classical ars disputandi on both sides. Under the duress of the heaviest satirical attacks, Romanticism began gradually to see itself as one movement, giving rise to the problematic opposition of Classical and Romantic. The construction of this rough divide, however, was indispensable for the clarification of different positions in the hubbub of conflicting voices, and has also proved critical in literary and cultural studies which cannot do without such subsumptions. The Classical Tradition, encompassing Christianity, emerges as an ongoing event from Greek and Latin antiquity running through to our time.
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Author: Mark Philp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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An innovative new reading of the character of, and tensions in, London's radical intellectual culture at the time of the French Revolution.
Author: William Godwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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