Author: Sybil Rosenfeld
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1939
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sybil Marion Rosenfeld
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kathleen Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1108479782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the politics of theatrical and social performance in the establishment of eighteenth-century British imperial rule.
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1971-07-02
Total Pages: 1698
ISBN-13: 9780521079341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author: Laura Engel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1527561364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women’s status in the public world became the focus of cultural attention both on and off the stage. In addition to the appearance of the first actresses during this period female playwrights, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, theatrical managers and entrepreneurs emerged as skillful and often demanding professionals. In this variety of new roles, eighteenth-century women redefined shifting notions of femininity by challenging traditional representations of female subjectivity and contributing to the shaping of eighteenth-century society’s attitudes, tastes, and cultural imagination. Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century studies reflects a heightened interest in fame, the rise of celebrity culture, and new ways of understanding women’s participation as both private individuals and public professionals. What is unique to the body of essays presented here is the authors’ focus on performance as a means of thinking about the ways in which women occupied, negotiated, re-imagined, and challenged the world outside of the traditional domestic realm. The authors employ a range of historical, literary, and theoretical approaches to the connections among women and performance, and in doing so make significant contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, theatre history, gender studies, and performance studies.
Author: Deborah C. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1009398210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Author: Michael Cordner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-24
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0230287190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.
Author: Annibel Jenkins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 851
ISBN-13: 0813193931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century—an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London. Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London stage debut a year later, and her writing debut came in 1784 with the play The Mogul Tale; Or, The Descent of the Balloon. Over the next two decades she wrote or adapted twenty-one plays: comedies, farces, and works from French and German, including the version of Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, later used in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Inchbald's acclaimed first novel, A Simple Story, prefigured the work of later women writers such as Austen. Using material from Inchbald's own pocket books detailing her daily life (she destroyed most of her letters and journals late in her life at the advice of her Catholic confessor) as well as a wealth of other sources, Annibel Jenkins tells for the first time not only the full story of Mrs. Inchbald's life but also provides a fascinating look at the society and politics, both public and private, of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.