English Drama, 1660-1800
Author | : Frederick M. Link |
Publisher | : Detroit : Gale Research Company |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Frederick M. Link |
Publisher | : Detroit : Gale Research Company |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Robert D. Hume |
Publisher | : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
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This important new collection is keyed to a fresh analysis of the ways in which meaning can be examined and the caution with which critics should proceed. Writing with his customary extraordinary clarity, Hume argues for a move beyond the kinds of interpretation prevalent for the last 30 years based upon close reading. With subtlety and fine sense, "Content and Meaning in the Drama," chapter one, outlines how to identify and analyze the "meaning" of plays in ways that go beyond questions of effective impact and enter the realm of ideas and commentary upon real-life material. In urging this move he cautions against lapsing into relativism or losing sight of the lessons to be learned from generic and historical context. His essays present a survey of the drama of this period (concentrating on comedy), focusing on matters of content, ideology and values, impact, and genre. He presents a case for the study of some fine but neglected plays, demolishes some misleading clichés, and offers a view of the plays unwarped by inherited assumptions or personal preferences. To an extent quite unusual in a collection, his first essay provides a purpose and point for the subsequent essays and their concern with the values to be found in the plays and the impact they seem designed to have on an audience. As Hume states in the Preface, "I have assembled this collection of essays in the belief that they represent a coherent approach to the plays, and in the hope that they will prove provocative. I will be content if my arguments serve to focus future debate, whether they are accepted, rejected, or modified by later writers."
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Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
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Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Heather Ladd |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2022-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1644532603 |
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4629 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521125482 |
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 | : Allardyce Nicoll |
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Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1952-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521058292 |
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 | : Shirley Strum Kenny |
Publisher | : Associated University Presses |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : 9780918016652 |
Fifteen outstanding scholars of theater, music, art, and literature explore the interrelations of eighteenth-century British theater and the various art forms that it incorporated into itself. The essays examine the theater's increasing reliance on set designers, costumers, musicians and composers, poets, dramatists, and librettists, focusing on the ways in which this dependence fundamentally changed the theater. Illustrated.