Download or read book John Liston Comedian written by Jim Davis and published by London : Society for Theatre Research. This book was released on 1985 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late Georgian and Regency England written by Jim Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the relationship between comic acting and the visual arts in late-Georgian and Regency England.
Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and Shakespeareana written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Treasury of Modern Anecdote written by William Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre 1789 1860 written by Donald Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as notional parameters the upheaval of the French Revolution and the events leading up to the Unification of Italy, this volume charts a period of political and social turbulence in Europe and its reflection in theatrical life. Apart from considering external factors like censorship and legal sanctions on theatrical activity, the volume examines the effects of prevailing operational conditions on the internal organization of companies, their repertoire, acting, stage presentation, playhouse architecture and the relationship with audiences. Also covered are technical advances in stage machinery, scenography and lighting, the changing position of the playwright and the continuing importance of various street entertainments, particularly in Italy, where dramatic theatre remained the poor relation of the operatic, and itinerant acting troupes still constituted the norm. The 460 documents, many of them illustrated, have been drawn from sources in Britain, France and Italy and have been annotated, and translated where appropriate.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire written by Matthew Kaiser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920-shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by European and American imperial powers-it is no wonder that people in the Age of Empire turned to comedy in order to make sense of the contradictions that structure modern identity and navigate the sociocultural fault lines within modern life. Comical, humorous, and satirical cultural artifacts from the period capture the anxieties and aspirations, the petty resentments and lofty ideals, of a world buffeted by change. This volume explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions of comedy in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identity, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These eight divergent approaches to comedy in the Age of Empire add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Download or read book I Hope I Don t Intrude written by David Vincent and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking his title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play 'Paul Pry', a huge success in London, New York, and around the English-speaking world, David Vincent explores the worlds of privacy and celebrity in 19th-century Britain, examining debates about mass communication and state surveillance that link to today's concerns.
Download or read book The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre written by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.
Download or read book Modern Anecdotes written by William Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The treasury of modern anecdote ed with notes and intr by W D Adams written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comedy an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism written by James E. Evans and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Download or read book Stage Page Scandals and Vandals written by D. L. Rinear and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton fled England in 1834 and came to America in the wake of a public scandal caused by his marriage to a sixteen-year-old orphan. Burton was then already married with a ten-year-old son. Settling in Philadelphia, the thirty-two-year-old actor rapidly established himself in the city's theatrical productions and quickly became an audience favorite.
Download or read book The English Spy written by Charles Molloy Westmacott and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Enterprises of Robert William Elliston Comedian written by George Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic Satirical And Humorous written by C. M. Westmacott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the wit and humor of C.M. Westmacott in his classic work, "The English Spy." This satirical and humorous book vividly portrays life in 19th-century English society through scenes and sketches featuring characters from every social rank. With its insightful commentary and sharp observations, The English Spy is a must-read for anyone interested in literature and the complexities of human behavior.
Download or read book The English Actor written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, from a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting—deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays—through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance, to modern methods following the advent of film and television. Across centuries and media, The English Actor also explores the biographies of the most notable and celebrated British actors. From the first woman actor on the English stage, Margaret Hughes, who played Desdemona in 1660; to luminaries like Laurence Olivier, Peter O’Toole, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Helen Mirren; to contemporary multihyphenates like Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, Sophie Okonedo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ackroyd gives all fans of the theater an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted, how audiences have responded, and what we mean by the magic of the stage.
