Author: Arthur Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Life of David Garrick, Esq
Author: Arthur Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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High Life Below Stairs;
Author: James Townley
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The Life of David Garrick, Esq
Author: Arthur Murphy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography
Author: Amanda Weldy Boyd
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420784
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420784
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Spectacular Disappearances
Author: Julia H. Fawcett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047211980X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A look at England's larger-than-life figures in the 18th century shines a spotlight on contemporary celebrity
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047211980X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A look at England's larger-than-life figures in the 18th century shines a spotlight on contemporary celebrity
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Lothario's Corpse
Author: Daniel Gustafson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684482119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684482119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Introduction: The long-running Restoration -- Corpsing Lothario -- Debating Dorimant -- Stuarts without end -- Libertines and liberalism.
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William Lowe
Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times
Author: Robert William Lowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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