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:

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.

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 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 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 Rare and Interesting Autograph Letters Original Manuscripts Historical Documents and Rare Books Offered for Sale written by Conway, Noel & Company and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors Part II Volume 1 written by Gail Marshall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.

Download or read book Essays of Elia written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre written by Nancy Copeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.

Download or read book Slavery Abolition and Emancipation Vol 5 written by Jeffrey N Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

Download or read book Sound and Sense in British Romanticism written by James Grande and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating exploration of the newly reimagined world of sound and sense in Britain in the decades around 1800.

Download or read book Catalogue of Autographs Etc written by Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shakespeare s Sweet Thunder written by Michael J. Collins and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays on Shakespeare's early comedies has been designed to suggest how five four-hundred-year-old plays have been and might continue to be, in the words of Jonathan Miller, "assimilated to the interests of the present" to the men and women who encounter them, as texts or performances, in the last years of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved