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Book The Dramatic Works of John O Keeffe  Esq

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John O Keeffe Esq written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dramatic Works of John O Keeffe

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John O Keeffe written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Plays of John O Keeffe

Download or read book The Plays of John O Keeffe written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recollections of the Life of John O Keeffe

Download or read book Recollections of the Life of John O Keeffe written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recollections of the Life of John O Keeffe  Written by Himself

Download or read book Recollections of the Life of John O Keeffe Written by Himself written by John O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Mirror

Download or read book The Monthly Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Mirror  Reflecting Men and Manners

Download or read book The Monthly Mirror Reflecting Men and Manners written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women in Wartime

Download or read book Women in Wartime written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century. During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects. Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, Backscheider traces the rise of the London theatre's acceptance that one of its responsibilities was to support its country's wars. Rather than focusing on the historical, mythical "warrior women" on the battlefield who have been much studied, Backscheider explores the lives and work of sweethearts, wives, mothers, sisters, barmaids, provision sellers, seaport prostitutes, and more, whose relationships to active-duty men made them recruits, volunteers, or even conscripts. They represent a distinct group of thousands of real women, and the actresses who portrayed them gave performances of change, struggle, celebration, mourning, survival, love, and patriotism. Backscheider explicates more than fifty plays—from main pieces, short farces, interludes, afterpieces, and comic operas to entr'actes, pantomimes, and even masques—as both entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of severe crises. She also reveals how these works, many written by men with military experience, attest to the context of difficult, inescapable realities and momentous needs. Through the debunking of sexual stereotypes and attention to audience-pleasing roles such as impoverished-wife and breeches parts, Backscheider adds a dimension to theatrical history that substantially contributes to women's and military histories. Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.

Book A History of Irish Theatre 1601 2000

Download or read book A History of Irish Theatre 1601 2000 written by Chris Morash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Morash's widely-praised account of Irish Theatre traces an often forgotten history leading up to the Irish Literary Revival. He then follows that history to the present by creating a remarkably clear picture of the cultural contexts which produced the playwrights who have been responsible for making Irish theatre's world-wide historical and contemporary reputation. The main chapters are each followed by shorter chapters, focusing on a single night at the theatre. This prize-winning book is an essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history and performance of Irish theatre.

Book  Biography  Identity and the Modern Interior

Download or read book Biography Identity and the Modern Interior written by Penny Sparke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer design and architectural historians. Established scholars and emerging researchers shed light on the methodological issues that arise from the use of these sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed, and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice. Historians and theorists working within a range of disciplinary contexts and historiographical traditions are turning to biography as means of exploring and accounting for social, cultural and material change - and this volume reflects that turn, representing the fields of architectural and design history, social history, literary history, creative writing and design practice. Topics include masters and servants in eighteenth-century English kitchens; the lost interiors of Oscar Wilde's 'House Beautiful'; Elsa Schiaparelli's Surrealist spaces; Jean Genet, outlaws, and the interiors of marginality; and architect Lina Bo Bardi's 'Glass House', S?Paulo, Brazil.

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 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New International Encyclopedia

Download or read book New International Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Monthly

Download or read book The Irish Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Irish Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Owning Performance   Performing Ownership

Download or read book Owning Performance Performing Ownership written by Jane Wessel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1710, England’s first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in a cultural and legal environment that treated print differently from performance. As ownership became a central concern for many, actors fought to possess their dramatic parts exclusively, playwrights struggled to control and profit from repeat performances of their works, and managers tried to gain a monopoly over the performance of profitable plays. Owning Performance follows the careers of some of the 18th century’s most influential playwrights, actors, and theater managers as they vied for control over the period’s most popular shows. Without protection for dramatic literary property, these figures developed creative extra-legal strategies for controlling the performance of drama—quite literally performing their ownership. Their various strategies resulted in a culture of ephemerality, with many of the period’s most popular works existing only in performance and manuscript copies. Author Jane Wessel explores how playwrights and actors developed strategies for owning their works and how, in turn, theater managers appropriated these strategies, putting constant pressure on artists to innovate. Owning Performance reveals the wide-reaching effects of property law on theatrical culture, tracing a turn away from print that affected the circulation, preservation, and legacy of 18th century drama.