Author: Barry Sutcliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-09-08
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521240192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: George Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0521630525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Author: David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1317323734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.
Author: George Colman (the Younger)
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Published: 1981
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Free Public Library, Museum, and Walker Art Gallery (LIVERPOOL)
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Philip F. Kennedy
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2013-11-08
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1479857092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.
Author: Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-06-14
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1476606803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.