Author: William Thomas Moncrieff (pseud. [i.e. William Thomas Thomas.])
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: P. Reed
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230622712
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.

Author: Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Suzanne Aspden
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659615X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house’s physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy of examination. Operatic Geographies invites us to reconsider the opera house’s spatial production. Looking at opera through the lens of cultural geography, this anthology rethinks the opera house’s landscape, not as a static backdrop, but as an expression of territoriality. The essays in this anthology consider moments across the history of the genre, and across a range of geographical contexts—from the urban to the suburban to the rural, and from the “Old” world to the “New.” One of the book’s most novel approaches is to consider interactions between opera and its environments—that is, both in the domain of the traditional opera house and in less visible, more peripheral spaces, from girls’ schools in late seventeenth-century England, to the temporary arrangements of touring operatic troupes in nineteenth-century Calcutta, to rural, open-air theaters in early twentieth-century France. The essays throughout Operatic Geographies powerfully illustrate how opera’s spatial production informs the historical development of its social, cultural, and political functions.

Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889677
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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This book examines the radical changes in drama during the Romantic period, tracing how these changes affected theatre performance, acting, and audience.

Author: D. Worrall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230801412
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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