Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780521109314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author: M. Cody Poulton
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010-05-31
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0824833414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essential reading for the growing number of Westerners interested in the roots of modern Japanese theatre
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 9780521129473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith E. Barlow
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781557830081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
Author: Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780521109284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Allardyce Nicoll's History of English Drama, 1660-1900 was an immense scholarly achievement and the work of one man. Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'. The History is reissued in seven paperback volumes, available separately and as a set. In volumes 1-5 Nicoll describes the conditions of the stage, actors and managers as well as dramatic genres. The sixth and seventh volumes offer a comprehensive list of all the plays known to have been produced or printed in England between 1660 and 1930, with their authors and alternative titles; it has thus independent value as well as providing an index to the earlier volumes.
Author: E. H. Mikhail
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 4629
ISBN-13: 9780521125482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nicoll's History tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period.
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 1135314179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0199988757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence. After a consideration of how John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) created a prototype for eighteenth-century ballad opera, the book focuses on the use of song in early nineteenth century theatre, followed by a sociocultural analysis of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; it then examines Edwardian and interwar musical comedies and revues as well as the impact of Rodgers and Hammerstein on the West End, before analysing the new forms of the postwar British musical from The Boy Friend (1953) to Oliver! (1960). One section of the book examines the contributions of key twentieth century figures including Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Joan Littlewood and producer Cameron Macintosh, while a number of essays discuss both mainstream and alternative musicals of the 1960s and 1970s and the influence of the pop industry on the creation of concept recordings such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and Les Misérables (1980). There is a consideration of "jukebox" musicals such as Mamma Mia! (1999), while essays on overtly political shows such as Billy Elliot (2005) are complemented by those on experimental musicals like Jerry Springer: the Opera (2003) and London Road (2011) and on the burgeoning of Black and Asian British musicals in both the West End and subsidized venues. The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical demonstrates not only the unique qualities of British musical theatre but also the vitality and variety of British musicals today.