The London Mathews
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The Broadview Anthology Of Nineteenth Century British Performance
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Author : Tracy C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2011-12-20
The Broadview Anthology Of Nineteenth Century British Performance written by Tracy C. Davis and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Drama categories.
This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.
Cockney Past And Present
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Author : William Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Cockney Past And Present written by William Matthews and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
The Life And Correspondence Of Charles Matthews The Elder Comedian
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Author : Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The Life And Correspondence Of Charles Matthews The Elder Comedian written by Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
A Documentary History Of The African Theatre
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Author : George Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998
A Documentary History Of The African Theatre written by George Thompson and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
A history of the African Theatre, the first all-black theatre company in the United States. Founded in 1821 in New York by William Alexander Brown, the African Theatre was created in response to the social segregation of the day. Within its first year, however, the theatre had expanded its audience. No longer characterizing itself as a resort primarily for New York's African-American community, it began to address itself to New Yorkers in general. The author has researched and documented all available facts about the company: its members; productions; playhouses; length of operation; types of audiences; and the reasons for its demise.
The London Mathews
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Author : Charles Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The London Mathews written by Charles Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with United States categories.
Dumbstruck A Cultural History Of Ventriloquism
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Author : Steven Connor
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-10-26
Dumbstruck A Cultural History Of Ventriloquism written by Steven Connor and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-26 with History categories.
Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.
Nightwalking
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Author : Matthew Beaumont
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2025-07-22
Nightwalking written by Matthew Beaumont and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-22 with Social Science categories.
A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a fascinating literary exploration of the writers who traverse the city at night and the people they meet.
Comic Acting And Portraiture In Late Georgian And Regency England
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Author : Jim Davis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-08
Comic Acting And Portraiture In Late Georgian And Regency England written by Jim Davis 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 2015-10-08 with Art categories.
An original study of the relationship between comic acting and the visual arts in late-Georgian and Regency England.
Making Scientific Instruments In The Industrial Revolution
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Author : A.D. Morrison-Low
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Making Scientific Instruments In The Industrial Revolution written by A.D. Morrison-Low and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience. How had this change come about, and why? This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National Museums of Scotland, charts the growth of these centres and provides a characterisation of their products. New information is provided on aspects of the trade, especially marketing techniques, sources of materials, tools and customer relationships. From contemporary evidence, she argues that the principal output of the provincial trade (with some notable exceptions) must have been into the London marketplace, anonymously, and at the cheaper end of the market. She also discusses the structure and organization of the provincial trade, and looks at the impact of new technology imported from other closely-allied trades. By virtue of its approach and subject matter the book considers aspects of economic and business history, gender and the family, the history of science and technology, material culture, and patterns of migration. It contains a myriad of stories of families and firms, of entrepreneurs and customers, and of organizations and arms of government. In bringing together this wide range of interests, Dr Morrison-Low enables us to appreciate how central the making, selling and distribution of scientific instruments was for the Industrial Revolution.
The London Mathews
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Author : Charles Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The London Mathews written by Charles Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with United States categories.