Download or read book The Pantomime Man and Others written by Richard Middleton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Barnham Middleton's "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, "I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels." Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, volumes of his work were published in his lifetime, as soon as he was dead, he was "discovered." Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as "The Coffin Merchant," "On the Brighton Road," and "The Conjurer," which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived. The Pantomime Man presents an unexpected treasure-trove of Middleton's writings. It was originally published a generation after the author's death, when it had been thought that the store of Middleton material had been exhausted.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Pantomime written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantomime, notably among them John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and W.E. Gladstone. In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that ensured the enduring popularity of the form. The secret of its success, he argues, was its continual evolution. It acted as an accurate cultural barometer of its times, directly reflecting current attitudes, beliefs and preoccupations, and it kept up a flow of instantly recognisable topical allusions to political rows, fashion fads, technological triumphs, wars and revolutions, and society scandals. Richards assesses throughout the contribution of writers, producers, designers and stars to the success of the pantomime in its golden age. This book is a treat as rich and appetizing as turkey, mince pies and plum pudding.
Download or read book Sunday Under Three Heads and Other Sketches written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pantomime Book written by Paul Harris and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian and actor Paul Harris has brought together an hilarious collection of theatrical material, much of it originating in Victorian times and refined and updated in many pantomime productions since.
Download or read book The Pantomime Double Cross written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer trip to Paris in 1976…the toss of a strange challenge coin…and the offer to join a clandestine government program…that’s what led Isobelle Wylie on an unforgettable journey into the dangerous world of espionage, love, and betrayal. Even her family never knew about the secret life she lived. She was covertly trained to shadow national security threats as a member of the CIA’s Pantomime Team. Their main target? The KGB’s Eighth Chief Directorate, whose illegals used dirty tricks and coercion to gain access to America’s highly sensitive, very classified communications, equipment, and technology. Forty-five years later, she is attacked in a park in Maryland, savagely beaten and left for dead. Was it just a random encounter with a brutal assailant, or something far more sinister? Something to do with the current state of national security? Her nephew, Will Redfern, is quickly drawn into the intrigue when he opens the professional safe in her condo. As he reads her journals and manuscript, he realizes that the enemy she’s been fighting for decades is still actively hunting for the Pantomime Team. Why is Moscow so worried about what Belle and her fellow shadows know about those old spy cells? Desperate for answers, Will tracks down a man his aunt calls “MacGuyver”. As the two men search for Belle’s assailant, they uncover a heinous plot that has its roots deep inside Moscow and the old KGB First Directorate, where President Vladimir Putin served as a KGB officer. Did Putin reactivate the old terror networks once handled by the KGB in order to get inside America’s present day national security?
Download or read book The man who could not lose and other stories written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mudfog and Other Sketches EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by Charles Dickens and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pantomime written by Karl Toepfer and published by Vosuri Media. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Download or read book Official Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112077179726 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unacceptable Risk written by David Dun and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestselling Author DAVID DUN Deep in the wilds of the Amazon jungle, a rare insect is discovered to possess an incredible substance within its body—one that can alter the cells of the human brain. It is a breakthrough that could bring untold power—or unspeakable horror. Covert operative Sam Wintripp is charged with locating a researcher who is trying to uncover the secrets of the mysterious substance. But he is not alone. A ruthless terrorist is also on the hunt, with his own twisted plans to unleash a genetic nightmare on the world. Back in the States, Sam is caught in a desperate fight for survival against both a lethal enemy and a biological time bomb with the potential to cause global devastation. With the clock ticking and the stakes rising, Sam must risk everything to save himself, his team, and the future of humanity.... Combining the heart-stopping suspense of Nelson DeMille with the cutting-edge themes of Michael Crichton, comes the terrifyingly timely new novel from David Dun, national bestselling author of OVERFALL and AT THE EDGE... PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF DAVID DUN “Readers will delight in well-executed plot twists...Escapist fiction of the first order.”—Clive Cussler “David Dun delivers. You won’t be done with Dun until the very last page.”—Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author “David Dun combines cutting-edge science and classic suspense with superb results.”—Steve Alten, New York Times bestselling author of Domain
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Download or read book Playthings in Early Modernity written by Allison Levy and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat written by Enid Blyton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Sketches By Boz Illustrative of Every day Life and Every Day people sic written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Pantomime written by Maureen Hughes and published by Remember When. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Christmas entire families in the UK troop off to see, what one could almost say is 'the obligatory'. annual entertainment, known as Pantomime. It is a traditional, seasonal way of life for the British envied the world over, and one which only the British seem to understand! Pantomime serves both to entertain and to introduce each new generation to the joys of theatre in the most unique of ways, for this is not a type of theatre one merely watches, but one in which the audience participate often in the most seemingly boisterous and bizarre of ways. The whole experience is steeped in tradition, traditions which only the British seem to understand, which is probably why we are proud to call it a 'British Experience.'??In A History of Pantomime Maureen Hughes takes a brief look at the history of Pantomime as well as taking a humorous look at some of the above mentioned traditions; she also gives a synopsis of each of the well-known Pantomimes whilst exploring the eccentric world of the characters who appear in them. There is also a short piece on just some of the most well-known and loved of the actors who each Christmas take on the part of Pantomime Dames across the UK, as well as a look at others who have contributed to this magical world of fun and eccentricity. It is thought by some to be frivolous and pointless piece of theatre, but a browse through this informative book and you will soon find that Pantomime is an art form all of its own, requiring the most dedicated and talented of actors/actresses who are prepared to honour and perpetuate this wonderful tradition as it is passed down from one generation to the next.??As seen in The Telegraph and the Sunday Post (Glasgow).
