Aphra Behn Stages The Social Scene In The Restoration Theatre
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Aphra Behn Stages The Social Scene In The Restoration Theatre
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Author : Dawn Lewcock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Aphra Behn Stages The Social Scene In The Restoration Theatre written by Dawn Lewcock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Bronze E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader access and download of an abridged version in PDF and device formats.
Restoration Staging 1660 74
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Author : Tim Keenan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Restoration Staging 1660 74 written by Tim Keenan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.
The Cambridge Companion To English Restoration Theatre
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Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-11
The Cambridge Companion To English Restoration Theatre written by Deborah Payne Fisk and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-11 with Drama categories.
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
The Ravishing Restoration
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Author : Ann Marie Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Ravishing Restoration written by Ann Marie Stewart and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Drama categories.
Irony And Earnestness In Eighteenth Century Literature
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Author : Shane Herron
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-27
Irony And Earnestness In Eighteenth Century Literature written by Shane Herron and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shane Herron demonstrates how eighteenth-century irony was used not only in derision but also to clarify and sharpen emotional investments.
Broken Boundaries
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Author : Katherine M. Quinsey
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-03-17
Broken Boundaries written by Katherine M. Quinsey and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-17 with Drama categories.
This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.
Sir William Davenant The Court Masque And The English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage C 1605 C 1700
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Author : Dawn Lewcock
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2008
Sir William Davenant The Court Masque And The English Seventeenth Century Scenic Stage C 1605 C 1700 written by Dawn Lewcock and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
This book examines why, when, how and where the scenic stage began in England. Little has been written about the development of theatrical scenery and how it was used in England in the seventeenth century, and what is known about the response to this innovation is fragmentary and uncertain. Unlike in Italy and France where scenery had been in use since the sixteenth century, the general public in England did not see plays presented against a painted location until Sir William Davenant presented The Siege of Rhodes at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661. Painted landscapes or seascapes, perspective views of cities or palaces, lighting effects, gods or goddesses flying down on to the stage in a chariot, all these had only been seen before on the masque stage at court or in the occasional private play performance. This study argues that Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was involved almost from the beginning of the process and that his influence continued after his death; that, although painted scenery as such would undoubtedly have appeared on the public stage after 1660, it would not have been in the same way, for Davenant made particular positive contributions which brought about certain changes in both the presentation and reception of plays which would not have happened as they did without his work and influence. This is new work which uses dramaturgical and scenographical analysis of selected plays and masques, against known theatrical history, to discover how the staging of painted settings was organised from c1605 to c1700. This kind of investigation into the links between masque staging and the staging of plays has not been done in quite this way before. The study begins with Davenant's involvement with Inigo Jones and John Webb. It analyses the staging of the court masques and discusses what Davenant took from this and how he used the information. It suggests that the move towards verisimilitude in the drama on the scenic stage was due in part to Davenant's imaginative use of certain of the physical components of masque staging in presentations by the Duke's Company. It argues that he encouraged dramatists to integrate the scenery into their plots, particularly to provide for disclosures and discoveries, in ways not possible before. How, in so doing, he implicitly changed the stage conventions of time and place which audiences had accepted from the platform stage. It also argues that the parallel development of operatic spectacle derived mainly from the use by Killgrew and the King's Company of the techniques for engineering the spectacular effects of the transformation scenes of the masque stage to embellish the heroic drama by Dryden and others. It suggests that the two staging methods combined in the later seventeenth century to give more sophisticated ways of using the scenery and thus involved the scenic stage with the dialogue and the action in all genres, but that such experimentation ended when financial and commercial considerations made it no longer viable. Nevertheless it concludes that, by the eighteenth century, theatre practitioners had learnt to use the stage craft and mechanical techniques of the masque stage to integrate the visual with the aural aspects of a production, and that dramatists, once concerned solely with the aural expression of their theme, had become playwrights who allowed for the visual elements in their texts. Over fifty illustrations exemplify the discussion. This is an important book in the history of theatre, essential background for the staging of the court masque, and for the scenography of the Restoration theatre.
Restoration Drama
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Author : Thomas James Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
Release Date : 1989
Restoration Drama written by Thomas James Taylor and has been published by Magill Bibliographies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
Includes playwrights whose dramatic output begins between 1660 and 1700 and responds to the changed social and political atmosphere of London.
Aphra Behn The Comedies
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Author : Kate Aughterson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Aphra Behn The Comedies written by Kate Aughterson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kate Aughterson provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn's abilities as a playwright, showing particularly how she skillfully employs comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst retaining her witty and accessible style. Chapters in the first part of the book provide close readings of the comedies, addressing such topics as openings, endings, character types, staging, and politics and society. In the second part, Aughterson not only examines Behn's literary career and the Restoration contexts of her plays, but also looks at some sample criticism and explores Behn's drama as performance.
The Theatre Of Aphra Behn
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Author : D. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2001-02-20
The Theatre Of Aphra Behn written by D. Hughes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the nineteen years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free-thinking intellectual. It also reveals her as a brilliant theatrical practitioner, who used the seen as richly and significantly as the spoken.