Author: John Genest
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Some Account of the English Stage
Author: John Genest
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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A Survey of English Literature, 1730-1780
Author: Oliver Elton
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The "Comedia Lacrimosa" and Spanish Romantic Drama (1773-1865)
Author: Joan Lynne Pataky Kosove
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Carrying All Before Her
Author: Chelsea Phillips
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644532484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
A catalogue of the libraries of John De Pesters ... John Conybeare [&c.]. Which will begin to be sold this day at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's
Author: T. Osborne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Embodiment of Characters
Author: Jones DeRitter
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512801771
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In The Embodiment of Characters, Jones DeRitter examines the connection between the eighteenth-century London stage and the early English novel. DeRitter begins with the sweeping changes decreed by the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which closed three of London's five legitimate theaters and dictated that every new play would have to be censored and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's office. Before 1737, reading plays had been a favorite pastime of literate English men and women, after 1737, many of these readers shifted their attention to novels. After using The Beggars Opera and The London Merchant to trace the different ways that sex and death could be presented in the material world of theatrical performance, DeRitter uses Clarissa and Tom Jones to explain how the debate over the value and consequences of human physicality was transformed by the shift from the London stage to the pages of the realistic novel. A crucial central chapter focuses on the life and autobiographical Narrative of Charlotte Charke—performer, memoirist, and male impersonator—whose struggle to define and defend herself traversed the boundaries between print and performance, between public and private life, and between the human body and the person who inhabited it. The Embodiment of Characters will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century, gender, and cultural studies, and English literature.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512801771
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In The Embodiment of Characters, Jones DeRitter examines the connection between the eighteenth-century London stage and the early English novel. DeRitter begins with the sweeping changes decreed by the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which closed three of London's five legitimate theaters and dictated that every new play would have to be censored and licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's office. Before 1737, reading plays had been a favorite pastime of literate English men and women, after 1737, many of these readers shifted their attention to novels. After using The Beggars Opera and The London Merchant to trace the different ways that sex and death could be presented in the material world of theatrical performance, DeRitter uses Clarissa and Tom Jones to explain how the debate over the value and consequences of human physicality was transformed by the shift from the London stage to the pages of the realistic novel. A crucial central chapter focuses on the life and autobiographical Narrative of Charlotte Charke—performer, memoirist, and male impersonator—whose struggle to define and defend herself traversed the boundaries between print and performance, between public and private life, and between the human body and the person who inhabited it. The Embodiment of Characters will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century, gender, and cultural studies, and English literature.
English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1642-1780
Author: George Henry Nettleton
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780)
Author: George Henry Nettleton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Grub Street Journal, 1730-33 Vol 4
Author: Bertrand A Goldgar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040235417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly journal in England of its period. The first four years are reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general introduction and comprehensive annotation.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040235417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly journal in England of its period. The first four years are reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general introduction and comprehensive annotation.
An Essay on the Manner of Writing History (1746)
Author: Peter Whalley
Publisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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