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Author | : Kenneth Richards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317400178 |
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Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots of much modern drama are to be found in the experiments and extravagancies of the nineteenth-century stage. The essays collected here cover a range of topics within the world of Victorian theatre, from particular actors to particular theatres; from farce to Byron’s tragedies, plus a separate section about Shakespearean productions.
Author | : T. Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230589480 |
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This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.
Author | : Marty Gould |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136740538 |
Download Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful and yet uncertain site for the transmission of official imperial ideologies. Nineteenth-century playwrights fed the public’s interest in Britain’s Empire by producing a wide variety of plays set in colonial locales: India, Australia, and—to a lesser extent—Africa. These plays recreated the battles that consolidated Britain’s hold on overseas territories, dramatically depicted western humanitarian intervention in indigenous cultural practices, celebrated images of imperial supremacy, and occasionally criticized the sexual and material excesses that accompanied the processes of empire-building. An active participant in the real-world drama of empire, the Victorian theatre produced popular images that reflected, interrogated, and reinforced imperial policy. Indeed, it was largely through plays and spectacles that the British public vicariously encountered the sights and sounds of the distant imperial periphery. Empire as it was seen on stage was empire as it was popularly known: the repetitions of character types, plot scenarios, and thematic concerns helped forge an idea of empire that, though largely imaginary, entertained, informed, and molded the theatre-going British public.
Author | : Michael Richard Booth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521343510 |
Download Theatre in the Victorian Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines all major aspects of theater practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period. Michael Booth's comprehensive survey explores the social and cultural context of the theater including theater management, the audience, architecture and production methods, acting and the job of the actor, as well as the drama itself. Within this framework, Booth discusses such topics as the effect on theater of population growth and the spread of the railway system, the typical organization of a Victorian theater company, the contribution to theater of several important actor-managers, the use of stage machinery and lighting instruments, and the stock company and rehearsal system. The volume also includes a chapter on sources, numerous previously unpublished illustrations, and a chronology. The result is a lively and informative account of the diversity, energy, and color of the Victorian stage, the whole period comprising one of the most fascinating and vigorous eras in the history of the English theater.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama, 1800-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shou-ren Wang |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1989-11-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1349203882 |
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Author | : Michael V. Pisani |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1609382307 |
Download Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music—in addition to song—was a common feature in the production of stage plays. The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.
Author | : Tracy C. Davis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-05-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521659826 |
Download Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.
Author | : Kenneth Roland Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kenneth Richards |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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