London Civic Theatre
Author: Anne Lancashire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780521632782
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Towards a Civic Theatre
Author: Dan Hutton
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781913630942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. But these problems began some time before a global pandemic. Decades of free market ideas, ten years of austerity, and the slow encroachment of private space have all worked together to create an industry struggling to define its purpose. The virus was a symptom, not the cause. In Towards A Civic Theatre, director Dan Hutton argues that a theatre which isn't civic in outlook is not worth fighting for. Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, it makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. It is a toolkit, a guide, an offer to audiences and a call to arms for artistic leaders of tomorrow.
Wicked
Author: Winnie Holzman
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781423492764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each title in The Applause Libretto Library Series presents a Broadway musical with fresh packaging in a 6 x 9 trade paperback format. Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
Medieval London
Author: Caroline Barron
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1580442579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.
The Mousetrap
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780573619236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Melodrama / 5m, 3f / Int. The author comes forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost mystery writer of her time.
Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England
Author: E. Decamp
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1137471565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
London Road
Author: Alecky Blythe
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848421769
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Anthony Munday and Civic Culture
Author: Tracey Hill
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780719063824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
Lydgate Matters
Author: L. Cooper
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-25
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0230610293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.
Theatre Outside London
Author: John Elsom
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author explores the strengths and limitations of the repertory theatre movement in England.
