Writing The History Of The British Stage
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Writing The History Of The British Stage
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Author : Richard Schoch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-12
Writing The History Of The British Stage written by Richard Schoch 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 2016-09-12 with Art categories.
A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.
Writing The History Of The British Stage 1660 1900
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Author : Richard W. Schoch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Writing The History Of The British Stage 1660 1900 written by Richard W. Schoch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with PERFORMING ARTS categories.
"This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. In this compelling revisionist study, Richard Schoch reclaims the deep history of British theatre history, valorizing the usually overlooked scholarship undertaken by antiquarians, booksellers, bibliographers, journalists and theatrical insiders, none of whom considered themselves to be professional historians. Drawing together deep archival research, close readings of historical texts from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and an awareness of contemporary debates about disciplinary practice, Schoch overturns received interpretations of British theatre historiography and shows that the practice - and the diverse practitioners - of theatre history were far more complicated and far more sophisticated than we had realised. His book is a landmark contribution to how theatre historians today can understand their own history"--
The Cambridge Illustrated History Of British Theatre
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Author : Simon Trussler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-10-20
The Cambridge Illustrated History Of British Theatre written by Simon Trussler 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 1994-10-20 with Drama categories.
Combining authoritative writing with superb illustration, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre is a fascinating exploration of the development of the live performing arts in Britain from the earliest times to the present day. Taking a broad view of theater, the book covers everything from the minor and "illegitimate" to the mainstream and "official"--whether the mystery plays of the Middle Ages or the "real time drama" of Coronation Street, the courtly theater of Shakespeare or the contemporary "fringe." The book is aimed at both students and general readers. Simon Trussler is a retired drama professor at the University of London and the editor of New Theatre Quarterly.
Women S Theatre Writing In Victorian Britain
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Author : K. Newey
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-11-01
Women S Theatre Writing In Victorian Britain written by K. Newey and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
Good Nights Out
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Author : Aleks Sierz
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Good Nights Out written by Aleks Sierz and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Performing Arts categories.
London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows that were enormous commercial successes over the past 75 years. He argues that these outstanding hits have a lot to say about the collective cultural, social and political attitudes and aspirations of the country, and about how our national identity - and theatre's role in creating it - has evolved over the decades. The book spans a range of work from almost forgotten plays, such as R. F. Delderfield's Worm's Eye View and Hugh Hastings's Seagulls Over Sorrento, to well-known mega-hits, such as The Mousetrap and The Phantom of the Opera. Such popular work has tended to be undervalued by some critics and commentators mainly because it has not been thought to be a suitable subject for inclusion in the canon of English Literature. By contrast, Sierz demonstrates that genres such as the British musical, light comedy, sex farce or murder mystery are worth appreciating not only for their intrinsic theatrical qualities, but also as examples of the dream life of the British people. The book challenges the idea that mega-hits are merely escapist entertainments and instead shows how they contribute to the creation of powerful myths about our national life. The analysis of such shows also points towards the possibility of creating an alternative history of postwar British theatre.
British Theatre And The Great War 1914 1919
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Author : Andrew Maunder
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-22
British Theatre And The Great War 1914 1919 written by Andrew Maunder and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-22 with Performing Arts categories.
British Theatre and the Great War examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918. Contributors discuss the roles played by the theatre industry. They draw on a range of source materials to show the different kinds of theatrical provision and performance cultures in operation not only in London but across parts of Britain and also in Australia and at the Front. As well as recovering lost works and highlighting new areas for investigation (regional theatre, prison camp theatre, troop entertainment, the threat from film, suburban theatre) the book offers revisionist analysis of how the conflict and its challenges were represented on stage at the time and the controversies it provoked. The volume offers new models for exploring the topic in an accessible, jargon-free way, and it shows how theatrical entertainment of the time can be seen as the `missing link’ in the study of First World War writing.
The Repertory Movement
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Author : George Rowell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-10-18
The Repertory Movement written by George Rowell 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 1984-10-18 with Drama categories.
This is an account of the origins, development and current state of the repertory theatre movement in Britain. The movement had its roots in ideas, experiments and traditions stretching back into the nineteenth century, and first found its voice in 1907 with Miss Horniman's company in Manchester. Since then it has played a vital - often a dominant - role in British twentieth-century theatre. As a method of theatre organisation, repertory refers to those theatres based primarily in the regions, housing a resident acting company and seeking to maintain each season a programme of plays catering for the tastes of the whole community. But the theory has never been dogmatic and the movement has evolved from a gamut of complex factors, not least the visions of particular personalities. Major landmarks in the history include the effects of the two World Wars, the advent of substantial state funding for the Arts, the growth of cinema and television and the renewal of theatre's link with the community in the form of such initiatives as Theatre- in-Education. The history concludes with a detailed study of six representative regional theatres: The Nottingham Playhouse; The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow; The Salisbury Playhouse; The Victoria Theatre, Stoke; The Everyman, Liverpool; and The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Appendixes include a Chronology, sample repertory programmes from the period, audience attendance figures and some comparative statistics about funding. Interspersed through the text are photographs of selected theatre exteriors, auditoria, stages and productions.
The Rise And Fall Of The Well Made Play Routledge Revivals
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Author : John Russell Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-19
The Rise And Fall Of The Well Made Play Routledge Revivals written by John Russell Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Performing Arts categories.
First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of British theatre and those who have been instrumental to it. This is an indispensable introduction for any student with an interest in the history and development of the British theatre.
Stage Histories
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Author : Paweł Schreiber
language : en
Publisher: English Literature and Culture in Context
Release Date : 2016
Stage Histories written by Paweł Schreiber and has been published by English Literature and Culture in Context this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with English drama categories.
The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century methodology of history were also crucial for the historical drama of that time by applying Hayden White's classification of categories determining the shape of historical writing to the plays of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard. The plays discussed in the book offer not only different visions of past events, but also different visions of historiography itself.
Changing Stages
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Author : Richard Eyre
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2001
Changing Stages written by Richard Eyre and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Theater categories.
Through the flash points of its glorious history, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, two of today's most distinguished men of the theatre, celebrate the British and American stage as it has evolved over the course of the twentieth century. From "Pygmalion's first Eliza Doolittle (Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who enchanted playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1914) and her equally piquant successors, to Uta Hagen in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; from Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward in his "Private Lives (their performance as dazzling as the play itself), to Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen--this stylish, astute, richly pictorial volume brings us the actors, directors, and playwrights who have shaped one hundred years of the theatre and the performances that live on in our minds . Lotte Lenya in "The Threepenny Opera, Laurence Olivier in the British production of Eugene O'Neill's viscerally American "Long Day's Journey into Night, Sidney Poitier in "A Raisin in the Sun, Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth, Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman, Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead . . . Here is the essential mixture of Shakespearean heritage, Irish magic, American vitality, and Russian pathos that converged on the stage in an efflorescence of dramatic innovation. Eyre and Wright's survey of this brilliant period is allusive, intelligent, and intimate, rich in anecdote and infused with a deep love and understanding of the theatre.