Download or read book Victorian Theatricals written by Sara Hudston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890s. The section 'Theatrical Behaviour' looks at the world of the audience and includes extracts from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park; Thackeray's Vanity Fair; an anonymous playlet called Acting Proverbs; and an extract from Marie Corelli's novel Sorrows of Satan. In 'Fun and Freaks' we explore the world of popular, sensationalist entertainment through the eyes of Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dion Boucicault and others. In the final section, 'Society', we have the scripts for four principal melodramas and serious plays of the age: The Factory Lad by John Walker; Society by T.W. Robertson; The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero.

Download or read book Private Theatricals written by Nina Auerbach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage.

Download or read book Old Gotham Theatricals written by Thomas Picton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These recollections of New York theatre life from the 1830s-1850s are selected from "Reminiscences of a Man About Town," a series of articles by Col. Tom Picton published in the New York Clipper between 1868-69. The impressions of the time are made vividly real from the actual experiences of the writer, who often mingled with the performers and directors. Complete with notes, index, and contemporaneous illustrations.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Amateur Theatricals written by John Kenrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions. In this book, drama teachers and community directors are given everything they need to know about picking the right show; licensing, casting, and budgeting; organizing a schedule; costumes, makeup, staging, lighting, and music; tickets, fundraising, programs, cast parties, and more. Illustrated with help plans and photos from actual productions. • Perfect for nonprofit organizations’ fundraising theater events and community theater groups • Complete with an extensive resource section • Illustrated with help plans and great photos from actual productions

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Private Theatricals written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Download or read book The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah written by John S. Lindsay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah is a book by John S. Lindsay. It depicts numerous popular plays and their characters during the late 19th and early 20th century. Excerpt: "When the Mormons came from Nauvoo to Salt Lake they brought with them to this wilderness in the Rocky Mountains, the love of the drama, and as a consequence it was not long, only a few years from 1847 to 1850, before they began to long for something in the way of a theatre. The pleasant recollections of the drama as interpreted at Nauvoo by Mr. Lyne and his supporting cast, were still fresh in their memories, and almost before many of them had comfortable houses to live in they began to yearn for some dramatic amusement. As a result of this strong inclination for the play and a still more universal desire for dancing, it was but a short time before their wishes materialized."

Download or read book Theatricals written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parlor Tableaux and Amateur Theatricals written by William Fearing Gill and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Private Theatricals written by Orville Augustus Roorbach and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book The Amateur s Hand Book and Guide to Home Or Drawing Room Theatricals How to Get Them Up and how to Act in Them To which is Added How to get Up Theatricals in a Country House By Captain Sock Buskin Supplement By T H Lacy written by William J. SORRELL (Member of the Dramatic Artists' Society.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amateur Theatricals written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theatricals and Tableaux Vivants written by Charles Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theatricals and Tableaux Vivants for Amateurs written by Charles Harrison (Editor of Moonshine.) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Amateur s Hand book and Guide to Home Or Drawing Room Theatricals written by Tony Denier and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China written by Chun Mei and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.

Download or read book The amateur s hand book and guide to home or drawing room theatricals written by Thomas Hailes Lacy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Download or read book The Addams Family Songbook written by Marshall Brickman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). The creepy and kooky Addams Family hit Broadway in April 2010 with this musical adaptation of the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons for The New Yorker starting in 1938. This songbook features piano/vocal arrangements (with the melody in the piano part) for 14 musical numbers from the Tony Award-nominated show: The Addams Family Theme * Crazier Than You * Happy/Sad * In the Arms * Just Around the Corner * Let's Not Talk About Anything Else but Love * Live Before We Die * The Moon and Me * Morticia * One Normal Night * Pulled * Waiting * What If * When You're an Addams.