Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke Esquire written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of George Frederick Cooke Esquire written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Frederick Cooke written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-03-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble, Henderson, Kean -- who dominated the English stage during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the first important actor to cross the Atlantic and to play the theatres of the new United States. Don B. Wilmeth's extensive research in Cooke's journal and in many other contemporary sources provides us with a new appreciation of the actor's importance.
Download or read book Starring Women written by Sara E. Lampert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women's place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals. A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of J H V Arnold written by John Harvey Vincent Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking Pictures written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking Pictures explores the complex negotiations between seeing and hearing essential to the audiences' experience in any dramatic performance. Ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, the essays consider a variety of methods that help us recuperate the visual impact of theatrical spectacle before the age of video archives. The anthology takes its discussion of performance beyond the physical space of the theater to examine texts that were meant to be spoken but not literally performed, such as medieval pageantry and closet dramas of the nineteenth century. Many essays focus on the Early Modern English stage, particularly the challenges of recapturing the totality of the original audience's experience in London's open air theaters by the examination of stage directions, text, and archival evidence. The collection concludes with a discussion of the contemporary actor's challenge in physicalizing the language of Early Modern plays, especially Shakespeare's
Download or read book The New Annual Register Or General Repository of History Politics and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Adventures in Theater History Philadelphia written by Peter Schmitz and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia. From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world premiere performance of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, and from censorship and opposition to riots and deadly fires, this engaging collection of short, focused narratives introduces the reader to the often overlooked and frequently underappreciated topic of the history of theater in Philadelphia, and offer a new way of approaching the wider history of this unique and important American city. The stories are populated by some of the many notable visitors to the city’s theaters, including Oscar Wilde, Edmund Kean, John Wilkes Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, Ayn Rand, Tennessee Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson and Joseph Papp; and the stories of heroes of local theater including Edwin Forrest, Pearl Bailey, Molly Picon, and Charles Fuller and Kevin Bacon. Also putting in appearances are the mostly forgotten, but no less fascinating Annie Kemp Bowler “the Original Stalacta,” May Manning Lillile the Quaker Cowgirl, and tennis champion William (“Big Bill”) Tilden. All together, these lively and vivid stories—many of them little-known or unexplored—serve to form a larger narrative of the role that theater has played, and continues to play, in shaping and reflecting the texture of life in an American city.
Download or read book The New Annual Register Or General Repository of History Politics and Literature for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca histrionica a catalogue of the theatrical and miscellaneous library of mr John Field which will be sold by auction written by John Field (dramatic collector.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
