Download or read book Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton written by Barry Sutcliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists. The plays have been chosen to represent the range of the two playwrights and the variety of dramatic material on offer during the period. The full-length plays and afterpieces by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton were as popular as Sheridan's works in their time, but today are seldom performed or read. This discrepancy lies at the heart of Barry Sutcliffe's extensive introduction, which explores the critical and social background to the dramatic activity of the period and relates the dramas to the shifting demands of the theatre audiences for whom these plays were written.
Download or read book The Censorship of Eighteenth Century Theatre written by David O'Shaughnessy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-reaching analysis of censorship's profound impact on Georgian theatrical culture and its development across the long eighteenth century, showcasing how the analysis of plays can be helpful for historical research.
Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Colman Family written by Richard Brinsley Peake and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington written by Richard Robert Madden and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Colman Family including their correspondence with the most distinguished personages of their time written by Richard Brinsley PEAKE and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maggs Bros Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arms Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution 1789 1815 written by Sarah Burdett and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.
Download or read book The Stage written by Alfred Bunn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 1840 memoirs provide a fascinating if one-sided account of Alfred Bunn's career as librettist and theatrical manager.
Download or read book The Censorship of English Drama 1824 1901 written by John Russell Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of English Literature written by Chambers and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1860 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playing God written by John R. Elliott Jr. and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era. In medieval mystery plays, God appeared as one of the characters, along with angels, saints, the devil, and others. Until very recently however, the revival of interest in medieval culture has not included drama, beacuse of a lingering fear of blasphemy associated with the representation of God on the stage. In Britain this fear was the legacy of a theatrical censorship which has been exercised by the Lord Chamberlain's office for hundreds of years. Since that power was abolished in 1968, medieval religious, or mystery, plays are once again appearing on the stages of many countries. John R. Elliott Jr. studies the modern context of this important medieval genre. He begins by describing general attitudes towards religious drama from the time of the reformation, the popularity of the Oberammergaru Passion Play in Victorian times, and specific attempts by producers to overcome official hostility to religious plays. He traces the history of the major modern productions of the mystery cycles, such as the York Festival and the Bristol University performance of the Cornish Ordinalia, and provides information about the careers of the two leading pioneers of modern mystery-play production. The concluding chapter discusses the chief practical and aethetic problems involved in staging mystery plays for modern audiences, and assesses the overall importance of their revival in the larger context of British there today.
Download or read book Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Colman family including their correspondence written by Richard Brinsley Peake and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Works written by Lord Byron and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 4413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of Lord Byron's complete works has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1: Fugitive Pieces Poems on Various Occasions Hours of Idleness Poems Original and Translated Early Poems from Various Sources The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 2: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 3: Poems 1809–1813 The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale The Corsair Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Lara Hebrew Melodies: She walks in Beauty The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept If that High World The Wild Gazelle Oh! weep for those On Jordan's Banks Jeptha's Daughter Oh! snatched away in Beauty's Bloom My Soul is Dark I saw thee weep Thy Days are done Saul Song of Saul before his Last Battle "All is Vanity, saith the Preacher" When Coldness wraps this Suffering Clay Vision of Belshazzar Sun of the Sleepless! Were my Bosom as False as thou deem'st it to be Herod's Lament for Mariamne... Poems 1814–1816 The Siege of Corinth Parisina Poems of the Separation The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 4: The Prisoner of Chillon Poems of July—September, 1816: Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan Manfred: A Dramatic Poem The Lament of Tasso Beppo: A Venetian Story Ode on Venice Mazeppa The Prophecy of Dante The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci Francesca of Rimini Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical Tragedy The Vision of Judgment Poems 1816-1823 The Blues: A Literary Eclogue The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 5: Sardanapalus: A Tragedy The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy Cain: A Mystery Heaven and Earth; A Mystery Werner; or, The Inheritance: A Tragedy The Deformed Transformed: A Drama The Age of Bronze; or, Carmen Seculare et Annus haud Mirabilis The Island; or, Christian and his Comrades The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 6: Don Juan The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7: Jeux d'Esprit and Minor Poems, 1798–1824 Letters and Journals of Lord Byron Biographies: Byron by John Nichol The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
Download or read book Glorious Causes written by Julia Swindells and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glorious Causes explores the politics of theatricality and the theatricality of politics in late Georgian Britain, at a time when the British nation can be described as a stage for reform. Political rhetoric during this period was characterized by a rich vocabulary, drawing on theatrical language and forms, from melodrama and tragedy, to comedy and burlesque. Most importantly, activity in the theaters themselves, often dismissed until recently as vulgar or sentimental, was highly charged with political dynamic and controversy, central to the drama of reform.
