Eighteenth Century Drama Afterpieces
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Eighteenth Century Drama Afterpieces
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Author : Richard W. Bevis
language : en
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford U.P
Release Date : 1970
Eighteenth Century Drama Afterpieces written by Richard W. Bevis and has been published by London ; New York : Oxford U.P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Drama categories.
Eighteenth Century Drama Afterpieces
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Prologues Epilogues Curtain Raisers And Afterpieces
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Author : Daniel James Ennis
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2007
Prologues Epilogues Curtain Raisers And Afterpieces written by Daniel James Ennis and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to playhouse audiences from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play itself, but on what surrounded the mainpiece for the total theater experience of the day. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance texts, including prologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpieces, that merged to define the overall theatrical event.
English Drama
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Author : Richard W. Bevis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-06
English Drama written by Richard W. Bevis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Restoration And 18th Century Drama
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Restoration And 18th Century Drama written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Dramatists, English categories.
Play Lists And Afterpieces Of The Mid Eighteenth Century
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Author : Charles Read Baskervill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Play Lists And Afterpieces Of The Mid Eighteenth Century written by Charles Read Baskervill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with English drama categories.
The Afterpiece In English Drama From 1750 To 1800
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Author : Iva Jeanette Swalwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Afterpiece In English Drama From 1750 To 1800 written by Iva Jeanette Swalwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with English drama categories.
Women In Wartime
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Author : Paula R. Backscheider
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Women In Wartime written by Paula R. Backscheider and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, Backscheider traces the rise of the London theatre's acceptance that one of its responsibilities was to support its country's wars. Rather than focusing on the historical, mythical "warrior women" on the battlefield who have been much studied, Backscheider explores the lives and work of sweethearts, wives, mothers, sisters, barmaids, provision sellers, seaport prostitutes, and more, whose relationships to active-duty men made them recruits, volunteers, or even conscripts. They represent a distinct group of thousands of real women, and the actresses who portrayed them gave performances of change, struggle, celebration, mourning, survival, love, and patriotism. Backscheider explicates more than fifty plays—from main pieces, short farces, interludes, afterpieces, and comic operas to entr'actes, pantomimes, and even masques—as both entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of severe crises. She also reveals how these works, many written by men with military experience, attest to the context of difficult, inescapable realities and momentous needs. Through the debunking of sexual stereotypes and attention to audience-pleasing roles such as impoverished-wife and breeches parts, Backscheider adds a dimension to theatrical history that substantially contributes to women's and military histories. Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.
The Stage And The Page
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Author : George Winchester Stone
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-08-19
The Stage And The Page written by George Winchester Stone and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
The Rakish Stage
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Author : Robert D. Hume
language : en
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 1983
The Rakish Stage written by Robert D. Hume and has been published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Drama categories.
This important new collection is keyed to a fresh analysis of the ways in which meaning can be examined and the caution with which critics should proceed. Writing with his customary extraordinary clarity, Hume argues for a move beyond the kinds of interpretation prevalent for the last 30 years based upon close reading. With subtlety and fine sense, "Content and Meaning in the Drama," chapter one, outlines how to identify and analyze the "meaning" of plays in ways that go beyond questions of effective impact and enter the realm of ideas and commentary upon real-life material. In urging this move he cautions against lapsing into relativism or losing sight of the lessons to be learned from generic and historical context. His essays present a survey of the drama of this period (concentrating on comedy), focusing on matters of content, ideology and values, impact, and genre. He presents a case for the study of some fine but neglected plays, demolishes some misleading clichés, and offers a view of the plays unwarped by inherited assumptions or personal preferences. To an extent quite unusual in a collection, his first essay provides a purpose and point for the subsequent essays and their concern with the values to be found in the plays and the impact they seem designed to have on an audience. As Hume states in the Preface, "I have assembled this collection of essays in the belief that they represent a coherent approach to the plays, and in the hope that they will prove provocative. I will be content if my arguments serve to focus future debate, whether they are accepted, rejected, or modified by later writers."