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Book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660 1700  1691 1700  2 v

Download or read book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660 1700 1691 1700 2 v written by Pierre Danchin and published by Presses Universitaires de Nancy. This book was released on 1985 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration  1660 1700

Download or read book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660 1700 written by Pierre Danchin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration  1660 1700

Download or read book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660 1700 written by Pierre Danchin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century written by Pierre Danchin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Restoration Drama 1660 1700

Download or read book A History of Restoration Drama 1660 1700 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.

Book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century  1737 1760  v  5 6

Download or read book The Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century 1737 1760 v 5 6 written by Pierre Danchin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Download or read book Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater written by Diana Solomon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinion – became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy – arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Book Rival Queens

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  • Author : Felicity Nussbaum
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-10-11
  • ISBN : 0812206894
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Rival Queens written by Felicity Nussbaum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.

Book Music and Musicians on the London Stage  1695 1705

Download or read book Music and Musicians on the London Stage 1695 1705 written by Kathryn Lowerre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Book  Music and Musicians on the London Stage  1695 705

Download or read book Music and Musicians on the London Stage 1695 705 written by Kathryn Lowerre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of the relationship of music to genres including comedy, dramatick opera, and musical tragedy, and explores the migration of music from theater to theater, performer to performer, and from stage to street and back again. As Lowerre persuasively demonstrates, during this period, all theater was musical theater.

Book A History of Restoration Drama 1660 1700

Download or read book A History of Restoration Drama 1660 1700 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of English Drama  1660 1900  Restoration drama  1660 1700  4th ed

Download or read book A History of English Drama 1660 1900 Restoration drama 1660 1700 4th ed written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth Century Life

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-Century Life looks at all aspects of European culture during the Enlightenment. It is an interdisciplinary publication and covers diverse topics-from picturesque sojourns into English gardens and grottoes to studies of eighteenth-century rhetorical principles and the powers of political discourse. In addition it features review essays and extensive listings of new books.