Illegitimate Theatre In London 1770 1840
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Illegitimate Theatre In London 1770 1840
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Author : Jane Moody
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-30
Illegitimate Theatre In London 1770 1840 written by Jane Moody 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 2007-07-30 with Drama categories.
This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
British Sporting Literature And Culture In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Sharon Harrow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
British Sporting Literature And Culture In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Sharon Harrow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Entertaining Crisis In The Atlantic Imperium 1770 1790
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Author : Daniel O'Quinn
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-05-15
Entertaining Crisis In The Atlantic Imperium 1770 1790 written by Daniel O'Quinn and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness Awards Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society. Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O’Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that necessarily incorporated information circulated in the daily press. Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. Through a close engagement with this diverse entertainment archive, O'Quinn traces the hollowing out of elite British masculinity during the 1770s and examines the resulting strategies for reconfiguring ideas of gender, sexuality, and sociability that would stabilize national and imperial relations in the 1780s. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies.
New Theatre Quarterly 66 Volume 17 Part 2
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Author : Clive Barker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-05-10
New Theatre Quarterly 66 Volume 17 Part 2 written by Clive Barker 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 2001-05-10 with Drama categories.
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Literature Gender And Politics In Britain During The War For America 1770 1785
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Author : Robert W. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-22
Literature Gender And Politics In Britain During The War For America 1770 1785 written by Robert W. Jones 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 2011-09-22 with History categories.
A new interdisciplinary perspective on masculine identity and politics in Britain during the American War of Independence, 1775-83.
The Arabian Nights In Historical Context
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Author : Saree Makdisi
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-13
The Arabian Nights In Historical Context written by Saree Makdisi and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.
Romanticism And Popular Culture In Britain And Ireland
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Author : Philip Connell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-09
Romanticism And Popular Culture In Britain And Ireland written by Philip Connell 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 2009-04-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Staging The Peninsular War
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Author : Susan Valladares
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Staging The Peninsular War written by Susan Valladares and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Performing Arts categories.
From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Georgian Theatre 1737 1832
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Author : Julia Swindells
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-01-16
The Oxford Handbook Of The Georgian Theatre 1737 1832 written by Julia Swindells and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 — a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms — not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime — as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, it shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
Women Sociability And Theatre In Georgian London
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Author : Gillian Russell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-06-14
Women Sociability And Theatre In Georgian London written by Gillian Russell 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 2007-06-14 with History categories.
A highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of sociability in the eighteenth century.