Download or read book George Alexander Stevens and the Lecture on Heads written by Gerald Kahan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. The Lecture was first presented in London in 1764 and became a staple in the English-speaking theaters of the world for the remainder of the eighteenth century. It amassed a fortune for its creator, George Alexander Stevens, was copied and adapted by dozens of performers, and went through forty published editions, authentic and spurious. Kahan studies the theatrical and cultural backgrounds that influenced the contents, development, and popularity of the Lecture. His exhaustive research has produced the most comprehensive and accurate published account of Stevens's life and career as well as a bibliography of his works. In addition, readers will find one of the earliest printed texts of the Lecture and a scholarly chronological listing of hundreds of its performances and many of its variations, including information on dates, cities, theaters, actors, ticket prices, and critical reviews.
Download or read book The Celebrated Lecture on Heads written by George Alexander Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Steven s Celebrated Lecture on Heads which has been exhibited upwards of two hundred and fifty successive nights The seventh edition With an entire new frontispiece etc written by George Alexander Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Methodism Mocked written by Albert M. Lyles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these days, when satire is a fashionable form of rhetoric, no book could make more fascinating reading than this. By comparison with the satire revealed in this book, the modern variety seems pale and mild. Methodism Mocked examines the hostile literary reaction expressed in satire to Methodism and the Methodist leaders, John Wesley and George Whitefield, in the eighteenth century. It considers the basis for satiric attacks on such Methodist practices as field preaching and hymn-singing and on the theological doctrines emphasized by the Methodists, particularly justification by faith and perfection. By considering the attacks on Methodism in terms of eighteenth-century religious thought and literary practice, Methodism Mocked makes comprehensible a reaction long considered as only spiteful and malicious.
Download or read book Headlong Hall written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 7 Volume Set. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacock's first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.
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Download or read book The Works of the Late G A Stevens Esq written by George Alexander Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the Late G A Stevens Esq Consisting of His Celebrated Lecture on Heads and Songs A New and Improved Edition to which is Prefixed a Life of the Author By W H Badham written by George Alexander STEVENS and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humourist s Miscellany Containing Original and Select Articles of Poetry on Mirth Humour Wit Gaiety and Entertainment To which is Prefixed the Celebrated Lecture on Heads by G A Stevens Second Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humourist s Miscellany Containing Original and Select Articles of Poetry on Mirth Humour Wit Gaiety and Entertainment written by G. A. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Theatre in Dublin 1745 1820 written by John C. Greene and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.
Download or read book Labyrinth of Digressions written by René Bosch and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne's success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy. This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne's intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a number of late eighteenth-century imitations, show that Tristram Shandy was initially read against the background of Augustan and Grub-street satire. The earliest imitators harked back to traditions of banter and folklore, bawdy and grotesque humour, pathetic stories and orthodox religiosity, reaffirming a pattern of moral and aesthetic values that was conservative for its time. Philosophical Sentimentalism appears to have been a late development. It is also argued that, partly because of their bad reputation, some of the authors of forgeries and parodies had a greater influence on the original than the reviewers to whom Sterne is often said to have listened. The imitators followed leads and themes in the first instalments, developing them according to their own conception of Sterne's project and the reasons for his success. As a consequence, they unintentially put a pressure on Sterne to alter his course, and even to abandon some of the narrative lines and themes he had set out for himself. The literature section contains a chronological checklist of English eighteenth-century Sterneana.
Download or read book American Indians in British Art 1700 1840 written by Stephanie Pratt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be “Indian.” Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light. During the eighteenth century, the British allied themselves with Indian tribes to counter the American colonial rebellion. In response, British artists produced a large volume of work focusing on American Indians. Although these works depicted their subjects as either noble or ignoble savages, they also represented Indians as active participants in contemporary society. Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, where Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage. But Pratt also argues that to view these images as mere illustrations of historical events or individuals would be reductive. As works of art they contain formal characteristics and ideological content that diminish their documentary value.
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Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."
