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Book A Dramatick Entertainment  Call d The Necromancer

Download or read book A Dramatick Entertainment Call d The Necromancer written by John Rich and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dramatick Entertainment  Call d the Necromancer

Download or read book A Dramatick Entertainment Call d the Necromancer written by John Rich and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dramatick Entertainment  Call d the Necromancer

Download or read book A Dramatick Entertainment Call d the Necromancer written by John Rich and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Huntington Library T163181 Anonymous. By John Rich. Dublin: printed and sold by Pressick Rider, and Thomas Harbin, 1725. viii,20p.; 8°

Book The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts

Download or read book The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts written by Caroline van Eck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy.

Book The Cambridge history of English literature

Download or read book The Cambridge history of English literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harlequin Britain

    Book Details:
  • Author : John O'Brien
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2004-07-28
  • ISBN : 9780801879104
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Harlequin Britain written by John O'Brien and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-07-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime—a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar figure of the harlequin at its center—was a theatrical experience of unprecedented accessibility. The immediate popularity of this new genre drew theater apprentices to the cities to learn the new style, and pantomime became the subject of lively debate within British society. Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding bitterly opposed the intrusion into legitimate literary culture of what they regarded as fairground amusements that appealed to sensation and passion over reason and judgment. In Harlequin Britain, literary scholar John O'Brien examines this new form of entertainment and the effect it had on British culture. Why did pantomime become so popular so quickly? Why was it perceived as culturally threatening and socially destabilizing? O’Brien finds that pantomime’s socially subversive commentary cut through the dampened spirit of debate created by Robert Walpole's one-party rule. At the same time, pantomime appealed to the abstracted taste of the mass audience. Its extraordinary popularity underscores the continuing centrality of live performance in a culture that is most typically seen as having shifted its attention to the written text—in particular, to the novel. Written in a lively style rich with anecdotes, Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genres and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainment culture.

Book Transatlantic Encounters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alden T. Vaughan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-12-11
  • ISBN : 9780521865944
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Transatlantic Encounters written by Alden T. Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book The Incomparable Hester Santlow

Download or read book The Incomparable Hester Santlow written by Moira Goff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, through her dancing roles in dance dramas by John Weaver and pantomimes by John Thurmond and Roger, as well as the virtuoso dances created for her by Mr. Isaac and Anthony L'Abbé. Goff examines Santlow's fascinating personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. Santlow was unusual in making the transition from successful dancer-actress to independent and respectable widow. Goff also traces her life after retirement as her daughter's family rose from the gentry towards the aristocracy. This book will be of interest to dance and theatre historians, to women's studies scholars, and to all who are engaged with ongoing debates on the lives and careers of women on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stage.

Book Dyce Collection  A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce  Printed Book L to Z

Download or read book Dyce Collection A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce Printed Book L to Z written by John Forster and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts written by Alexander Dyce and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Dyce Collection  Printed books  L to Z

Download or read book Dyce Collection Printed books L to Z written by South Kensington Museum. Dyce collection and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dyce Collection  Printed books  L to Z

Download or read book Dyce Collection Printed books L to Z written by South Kensington Museum. Dyce collection and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne

Download or read book The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne written by Todd Gilman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), best known today as the composer of "Rule, Britannia." It will appeal to those interested in the mid-to-late eighteenth-century London and Dublin theatre, opera, and music scenes.