Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651328
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 597
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651328
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 597
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British Radio Drama
Author: John Drakakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521293839
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Critical and historical essays on plays for British radio.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521293839
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Critical and historical essays on plays for British radio.
The Repertory Movement
Author: George Rowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521319195
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This is an account of the origins, development and current state of the repertory theatre movement in Britain. The movement had its roots in ideas, experiments and traditions stretching back into the nineteenth century, and first found its voice in 1907 with Miss Horniman's company in Manchester. Since then it has played a vital - often a dominant - role in British twentieth-century theatre. As a method of theatre organisation, repertory refers to those theatres based primarily in the regions, housing a resident acting company and seeking to maintain each season a programme of plays catering for the tastes of the whole community. But the theory has never been dogmatic and the movement has evolved from a gamut of complex factors, not least the visions of particular personalities. Major landmarks in the history include the effects of the two World Wars, the advent of substantial state funding for the Arts, the growth of cinema and television and the renewal of theatre's link with the community in the form of such initiatives as Theatre- in-Education. The history concludes with a detailed study of six representative regional theatres: The Nottingham Playhouse; The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow; The Salisbury Playhouse; The Victoria Theatre, Stoke; The Everyman, Liverpool; and The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Appendixes include a Chronology, sample repertory programmes from the period, audience attendance figures and some comparative statistics about funding. Interspersed through the text are photographs of selected theatre exteriors, auditoria, stages and productions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521319195
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This is an account of the origins, development and current state of the repertory theatre movement in Britain. The movement had its roots in ideas, experiments and traditions stretching back into the nineteenth century, and first found its voice in 1907 with Miss Horniman's company in Manchester. Since then it has played a vital - often a dominant - role in British twentieth-century theatre. As a method of theatre organisation, repertory refers to those theatres based primarily in the regions, housing a resident acting company and seeking to maintain each season a programme of plays catering for the tastes of the whole community. But the theory has never been dogmatic and the movement has evolved from a gamut of complex factors, not least the visions of particular personalities. Major landmarks in the history include the effects of the two World Wars, the advent of substantial state funding for the Arts, the growth of cinema and television and the renewal of theatre's link with the community in the form of such initiatives as Theatre- in-Education. The history concludes with a detailed study of six representative regional theatres: The Nottingham Playhouse; The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow; The Salisbury Playhouse; The Victoria Theatre, Stoke; The Everyman, Liverpool; and The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Appendixes include a Chronology, sample repertory programmes from the period, audience attendance figures and some comparative statistics about funding. Interspersed through the text are photographs of selected theatre exteriors, auditoria, stages and productions.
British Enlightenment Theatre
Author: Bridget Orr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499716
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499716
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.
The Performing Century
Author: T. Davis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane Milling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830
Author: Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521617772
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521617772
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.
Writing the History of the British Stage
Author: Richard Schoch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107166926
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107166926
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.