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Book An Exact Description of the Two Fam d Entertainments of Harlequin Doctor Faustus  Containing the Particular Tricks  Incidents  Songs  Dances  Alterations  and Additions  Throughout Both Performances

Download or read book An Exact Description of the Two Fam d Entertainments of Harlequin Doctor Faustus Containing the Particular Tricks Incidents Songs Dances Alterations and Additions Throughout Both Performances written by Multiple Contributors and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 42 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: ++++ British Library N048483 The 'Necromancer' is by John Rich; 'Harlequin Doctor Faustus' with the masque of the deities is by John Thurmond. The rival performances occurred in 1724 (Nicoll). London: printed for T. Payne, [1724?]. [4],36p.; 8°

Book An Exact Description of the Two Fam d Entertainments of Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Download or read book An Exact Description of the Two Fam d Entertainments of Harlequin Doctor Faustus written by John Thurmond and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama

Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama written by Kristina Straub and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660–1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700–1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760–1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period’s dramatic landscape—from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle—The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike.

Book Criticism  Performance  and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Criticism Performance and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century written by James Harriman-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions between those passions. It was these pivotal transitions, scripted by authors and executed by actors, that could make King Lear beautiful, Hamlet terrifying, Archer hilarious and Zara electrifying. James Harriman-Smith recovers a lost way of appreciating theatre as a set of transitions that produce simultaneously iconic and dynamic spectacles; fascinating moments when anything seems possible. Offering fresh readings and interpretations of Shakespearean and eighteenth-century tragedy, historical acting theory and early character criticism, this volume demonstrates how a concern with transition binds drama to everything, from lyric poetry and Newtonian science, to fine art and sceptical enquiry into the nature of the self.

Book  The Stage s Glory

Download or read book The Stage s Glory written by Berta Joncus and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich’s multifaceted career, appreciation of which has suffered from his performing identity as Lun, London’s most celebrated Harlequin. Far from the lightweight buffoon that this stereotype has suggested, Rich—the first producer of The Beggar’s Opera, the founder of Covent Garden, the dauntless backer of Handel, and the promoter of the principal dancers from the Parisian opera—is revealed as an agent of changes much more enduring than those of his younger contemporary, David Garrick. Contributions by leading scholars from a range of disciplines—theatre, dance, music, art, and cultural history—provide detailed analyses of Rich’s productions and representations. These findings complement Robert D. Hume’s lead article, a study that radically alters our perception of Rich. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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 Bookseller s catalogues

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  • Author : Richard Priestley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1812
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book Bookseller s catalogues written by Richard Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bookseller s catalogues

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  • Author : Priestley and Weale
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  • Release : 1815
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book Bookseller s catalogues written by Priestley and Weale and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women   s Work

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  • Author : Lynn Brooks
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2008-01-05
  • ISBN : 029922533X
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Women s Work written by Lynn Brooks and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-01-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.

Book Arlecchino a Londra

Download or read book Arlecchino a Londra written by Viola Papetti and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loves of Mars and Venus. - Orpheus and Eurydice. - Harlequin Doctor Faustus. - The Necromancer ... The history of the mimes and pantomimes.

Book Dance  Spectacle  and the Body Politick  1250   1750

Download or read book Dance Spectacle and the Body Politick 1250 1750 written by Jennifer Nevile and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for both men and women. Dance performances were an integral part of court ceremonies and festivals and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, of commercial theatrical productions. Whether at court or in the public theater danced spectacles were multimedia events that required close collaboration among artists, musicians, designers, engineers, and architects as well as choreographers. In order to fully understand these practices, it is necessary to move beyond a consideration of dance alone, and to examine it in its social context. This original collection brings together the work of 12 scholars from the disciplines of dance and music history. Their work presents a picture of dance in society from the late medieval period to the middle of the 18th century and demonstrates how dance practices during this period participated in the intellectual, artistic, and political cultures of their day.

Book Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research

Download or read book Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research written by Carl Joseph Stratman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: