Theatre And Celebrity In Britain 1660 2000
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Theatre And Celebrity In Britain 1660 2000
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Author : Mary Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-10-18
Theatre And Celebrity In Britain 1660 2000 written by Mary Luckhurst and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.
English Theatrical Anecdotes 1660 1800
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Author : Heather Ladd
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-17
English Theatrical Anecdotes 1660 1800 written by Heather Ladd and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.
Celebrity Colonialism
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Author : Robert Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-12
Celebrity Colonialism written by Robert Clarke and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-12 with Social Science categories.
Celebrity Colonialism brings together studies on an array of personalities, movements and events from the colonial era to the present, and explores the intersection of discourses, formations and institutions that condition celebrity in colonial and postcolonial cultures. Across nineteen chapters, it examines the entanglements of fame and power fame in colonial and postcolonial settings. Each chapter demonstrates the sometimes highly ambivalent roles played by famous personalities as endorsements and apologists for, antagonists and challengers of, colonial, imperial and postcolonial institutions and practices. And each in their way provides an insight into the complex set of meanings implied by novel term “celebrity colonialism.” The contributions to this collection demonstrate that celebrity provides a powerful lens for examining the nexus of discourses, institutions and practices associated with the dynamics of appropriation, domination, resistance and reconciliation that characterize colonial and postcolonial cultural politics. Taken together the contributions to Celebrity Colonialism argue that the examination of celebrity promises to enrich our understanding of what colonialism was and, more significantly, what it has become.
Historical Dictionary Of British Theatre
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Author : Darryll Grantley
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-10-10
Historical Dictionary Of British Theatre written by Darryll Grantley and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
This book has over 1,183 entries in the dictionary section, these being mainly on playwrights and plays, but others as well including managers and critics, and also on specific theatres, legislative acts and some technical jargon. Then there are entries on the different genres, from comedy to tragedy and everything in between. Inevitably, the chronology is quite long as it has a long period to cover and the introduction provides the necessary overview. The Historical Dictionary of British Theatre: Early Period concludes with a pretty massive bibliography. That will be of use to particularly assiduous researchers, but this book itself is a good place to start any research since it covers periods that are far less well-known and documented, and ordinary theatre-goers will also find useful information.
The Cambridge Companion To Women S Writing In Britain 1660 1789
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Author : Catherine Ingrassia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-23
The Cambridge Companion To Women S Writing In Britain 1660 1789 written by Catherine Ingrassia 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 2015-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays by leading scholars provide a comprehensive overview of women writers and their work in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.
Intimacy And Celebrity In Eighteenth Century Literary Culture
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Author : Emrys D. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-19
Intimacy And Celebrity In Eighteenth Century Literary Culture written by Emrys D. Jones and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.
Dramaturgy
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Author : Mary Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-19
Dramaturgy written by Mary Luckhurst 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 2006-01-19 with Drama categories.
Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.
British Theatre And Performance 1900 1950
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Author : Rebecca D'Monte
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-26
British Theatre And Performance 1900 1950 written by Rebecca D'Monte and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Performing Arts categories.
British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca D'Monte examines how the emphasis upon the working class, 'angry' drama from the 1950s has led to the neglect of much of the century's earlier drama, positioning the book as part of the current debate about the relationship between war and culture, the middlebrow, and historiography. In a comprehensive survey of the period, the book considers: - the Edwardian theatre; - the theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals; -the interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism; - the theatre of the Second World War and post-war period. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period's theatre and demonstrate its relevance to the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama this will prove one of the foundational texts.
The Visual Life Of Romantic Theater 1780 1830
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Author : Diane Piccitto
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2023-05-24
The Visual Life Of Romantic Theater 1780 1830 written by Diane Piccitto and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage
An Illustrated History Of British Theatre And Performance
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Author : Robert Leach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-21
An Illustrated History Of British Theatre And Performance written by Robert Leach and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-21 with Performing Arts categories.
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment, tracing a movement from the outdoor and fringe to the heart of the social world. The Illustrated History acts as an accessible, flexible basis for students of the theatre, and for pure fans of British theatre history there could be no better starting point.