Author: William Archer
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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1894-1897 contain a synopsis of playbills of the year by Henry George Hibbert.

Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : Dramatic criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: James Woodfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317389433
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular stylings of Irving and Beerbohm Tree to the masking and statuesque styles of Isadora Duncan and the inner realism of Stanislavsky. This book traces the activities of the leading figures in the English theatre, notably William Archer who introduced Ibsen to this country and who became one of the main promoters of the idea of a National Theatre. Other personalities discussed include Harley Granville Barker, particularly his association with Shaw at the Court Theatre and his part in campaigns against censorship and for changes in the staging of Shakespeare, and Edward Gordon Craig, whose rebellion against the Victorian theatre took and anti-realist direction. This is a stimulating account of the background to the modern English theatre which can only increase appreciation of its standard and variety.

Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: J. Richards
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230250890
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.

Author: Fredric Woodbridge Wilson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567923607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This title features a wonderfully evocative collection of portraits of some of the greatest stars of 20th century British theatre. The photography of Angus McBean encompasses more than three decades of the history of British theatre. His work includes some of the most memorable theatre productions of the Old Vic Company and what is now the Royal Shakespeare Company; opera productions at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; ballet from Sadler's Wells; and West End productions of plays and musicals. He was a favourite photographer of Vivien Leigh, Lourence Olivier, and Edith Evans. He photographed countless plays starring the likes of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Alec Guinness, not to mention young stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Richard Burton, and Elizabeth Taylor. This sumptuously illustrated volume features 120 evocative images - reproduced from McBean's original negatives - of some the greatest stars of Twentieth-century British theatre.

Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853457
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Sir Henry Irving was the greatest actor of the Victorian age. He transformed the theater in Britain and America from a disreputable and marginal entertainment into a respected art form. His admirers ranged from Queen Victoria to working men and housewives. He was thought of by Gladstone as his greatest contemporary and in 1895 became the first actor to receive a knighthood. Published to mark the centenary of Irving’s death, this book gives an account not only of Irving himself and of his career, but also of his whole impact on the Victorian Theatre and on Victorian culture.