Staging Restoration Comedy
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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.
Staging Restoration Comedy
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Author : David Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Staging Restoration Comedy written by David Roberts and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Restoration Staging 1660 74
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Author : Tim Keenan (Dr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Restoration Staging 1660 74 written by Tim Keenan (Dr.) and has been published by 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 1660-74cuts 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, 1660-74takes 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 Ornament Of Action
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Author : Peter Holland
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1979-04-26
The Ornament Of Action written by Peter Holland 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 1979-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Peter Holland brings together the disciplines of theatre history and literary criticism in a close study of the staging of plays in the Restoration.
Rushing Into Floods
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Author : Gunda Windmüller
language : en
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Release Date : 2012
Rushing Into Floods written by Gunda Windmüller and has been published by V&R unipress GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on staging the sea in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the other. The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Restoration Comedy In Performance
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Author : J. L. Styan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-08-29
Restoration Comedy In Performance written by J. L. Styan 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 1986-08-29 with Drama categories.
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
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.
Staging Gender In Behn And Centlivre
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Author : Nancy Copeland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Staging Gender In Behn And Centlivre written by Nancy Copeland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.
Perspectives On Restoration Drama
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Author : Susan J. Owen
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
Perspectives On Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.
Restoration Comedy In Performance
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Author : J. L. Styan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-08-29
Restoration Comedy In Performance written by J. L. Styan 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 1986-08-29 with Drama categories.
Restoration comedy disappeared from the stage for nearly 200 years until it was revived early this century. Without the benefit of a performance tradition has suffered from an inappropriate literary and moralistic criticism which continues to this day. Yet this brilliant court and coterie comedy of sexual and social behaviour was an extraordinary success in its own time, and enjoys a unique place in theatrical history as an example of the interplay possible between the stage and the audience. In this book John Styan persuades us that only through a performance approach to the great plays of Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Shadwell, Vanbrugh, Congreve and Farquhar can we recover a sense of their value. Restoration Comedy in Performance is liberally illustrated with contemporary drawings and modern photographs, and it draws extensively upon documentary and visual evidence of the seventeenth century in order to suggest the importance of the costume and customs, manners and behaviour of the age to an understanding of the sort of theatre and drama it produced. Professor Styan also discusses the problems encountered in the early attempts to revive the comedies in the twentieth century, and pauses frequently in order to offer a descriptive account of a moment of staging or to recreate a scene or a sequence of comic repartee or action. The book aims to bring back to life, therefore, something of a lost art form, not as a piece of conventional stage or production history, but as a true attempt to recognize the virtues of Restoration comedy as a performing art.