Dublin Theatres and Theatre Customs (1637-1820)
Author | : La Tourette Stockwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : La Tourette Stockwell |
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Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : John C. Greene |
Publisher | : Lehigh University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780934223225 |
"The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 is a comprehensive documentary history and calendar of Dublin Ireland's theatres from 1720, the year of Joseph Ashbury's death, to 1745, when Thomas Sheridan assumed the management of the united Smock Alley/Aungier Street companies and ushered in the "Golden Age" of early Dublin theatre. During the eighteenth century, Dublin was second only to London in the number of theatres it supported and in the number and quality of productions. Winner of Lehigh University Press's eighteenth-century studies prize, this work details for the first time evidence of nearly 1,400 stage performances in eight competing theatres and theatrical booths and hundreds of performers, many previously unnoticed. Programs are listed in a detailed calendar, which is organized by theatrical season and provides a day-by-day account of the plays, afterpieces, dances, music, and songs that were performed, as well as the many other forms of entertainment that were staged at the public theatres, such as rope-dancing, animal acts, and equilibres." "The actors who performed and their named roles are listed, as well as the recipients of benefits, the titles of all songs, dances, and other entr'acte entertainments. Each entry also incorporates all available contemporary commentary about each performance, financial information, and supplies locations of rare texts." "In the analytical introduction to the calendar, the authors discuss the physical characteristics and locations of the theatres; their acoustics and capacities; the Dublin theatre season; composition, administration, and management of the companies of performers; management styles and techniques; actors' contractual arrangements, conditions, and salaries; ticket prices; benefit and command performances; the composition of the repertory; costumes, scenery, wardrobe, and machinery, and much else. Special attention is paid to areas that have been neglected by previous histories, such as dance and dancers, and prologues and epilogues." "In addition to a general index, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 provides indexes of all mainpieces and afterpieces performed during the period in Dublin, cross-referenced with the venue and date of performance; an author/play index; and an alphabetical listing of all personnel associated with the Dublin stage at this time, as well as a selected bibliography." "Incorporating into their book the work of recent eighteenth-century theatre scholarship, the authors bring to light much that is new about a fascinating period of theatre history and greatly expand our knowledge about the plays and entertainments enjoyed by Dublin audiences, and about the identities of the stage personnel active in Dublin."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : La Tourette Stockwell |
Publisher | : New York : B. Blom |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Dublin (Ireland) |
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Author | : John C. Greene |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1611461103 |
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.
Author | : Joan Fitzpatrick Dean |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 029919664X |
Under the strict rule of twentieth century Irish censorship, creators of novels, films, and most periodicals found no option but to submit and conform to standards. Stage productions, however, escaped official censorship. The theater became a "public space"—a place to air cultural confrontations between Church and State, individual and community, and "freedom of the theatre" versus the audience’s right to disagree. Joan FitzPatrick Dean’s Riot and Great Anger suggests that while there was no state censorship in early-twentieth-century Ireland, the theater often evoked heated responses from theatergoers, sometimes resulting in riots and the public denunciation of playwrights and artists. Dean examines the plays that provoked these controversies, the degree to which they were "censored" by the audience or actors, and the range of responses from both the press and the courts. She addresses familiar pieces such as those of William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Sean O’Casey, as well as the works of less known playwrights such as George Birmingham. Dean’s original research meticulously analyzes Ireland’s great theatrical tradition, both on the stage and off, concluding that the public responses to these controversial productions reveal a country that, at century’s end as at its beginning, was pluralistic, heterogeneous, and complex.
Author | : Joseph McMinn |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0874130689 |
Swift is a shrewd and humorous observer of the changing artistic and cultural scene in both Ireland and England, and his views on these changes in public taste are an important, albeit neglected, part of his biography. His correspondence, especially his Journal to Stella, shows us someone very aware of the various arts and of their lively emergence from the enclosed world of the Puritan era. Many of Swift's friends and acquaintances were serious collectors of paintings, sculpture, coins, medals and Swift himself eventually enjoyed an interesting and revealing collection of artistic artifacts, as this study shows.
Author | : Alan John Fletcher |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802043771 |
A study of the early history of drama and performance in Ireland, from the 7th century through the 16th and 17th centuries, ending on the eve of the arrival of Oliver Cromwell.
Author | : Frederick Wilse Bateson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9781611460667 |
Theatre in Dublin is the first comprehensive illustrated scholarly history of the Dublin theatres in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries. The nine chapters include government regulation of entertainment, advertising, finances, theatre management practices, props and costumes, and a socioeconomic analysis of both the performers and audiences of the time.
Author | : Peter Gray |
Publisher | : University College Dublin Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1910820970 |
Leading historians explore the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political, social and cultural