Victorian Portable Theatres
Author | : Josephine Harrop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Josephine Harrop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Mccormick |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1587295180 |
In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance in their life and time. The history of marionette performances is interwoven with live-actor performances and with the entire gamut of annual fairs, portable and permanent theatres, music halls, magic lantern shows, waxworks, panoramas, and sideshows. McCormick has drawn upon advertisements in the Era, an entertainment paper, between the 1860s and World War I, and articles in the World’s Fair, a paper for showpeople, in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, as well as interviews with descendants of the marionette showpeople and close examinations of many of the surviving puppets. McCormick begins his study with an exploration of the Victorian marionette theatre in the context of other theatrical events of the day, with proprietors and puppeteers, and with the venues where they performed. He further examines the marionette’s position as an actor not quite human but imitating humans closely enough to be considered empathetic; the ways that physical attributes were created with wood, paint, and cloth; and the dramas and melodramas that the dolls performed. A discussion of the trick figures and specialized acts that each company possessed, as well as an exploration of the theatre’s staging, lighting, and costuming, follows in later chapters. McCormick concludes with a description of the last days of marionette theatre in the wake of changing audience expectations and the increasing popularity of moving pictures. This highly enjoyable and readable study, often illuminated by intriguing anecdotes such as that of the Armenian photographer who fell in love with and abducted the Holden company’s Cinderella marionette in 1881, will appeal to everyone fascinated by the magic of nineteenth-century theatre, many of whom will discover how much the marionette could contribute to that magic.
Author | : Michael R. Booth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521348379 |
A comprehensive survey of the theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period.
Author | : Richard Southern |
Publisher | : Newton Abbot : David & Charles |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacky Bratton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2006-07-27 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521816661 |
The Victorian Clown is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book - offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic managed audience attention for the riders and acrobats, parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' - stand-up comedy sets. Plays in the ring connect the circus to the stage, and both these men were also comic singers, giving a sharp insight into popular music just as it was being transformed by the new institution of music hall.
Author | : Allan Stuart Jackson |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780838633922 |
This is the first major study of the Douglass family of England and the institution of the National Standard Theatre. It includes an examination of the theatrical aesthetics of the mid-Victorian theatre and the methods used by the Douglasses to achieve their success, as well as biographical material on a number of the actors and actresses and on the Douglass family itself.
Author | : R. Schoch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2004-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023028891X |
A fresh and intimate portrait of Queen Victoria 'at the play'. Through Victoria's diary, artwork and correspondence we see her as enraptured spectator, bountiful patron and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high-spirited and unruly; a woman who delights in gory melodramas and circus acts. Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age gives readers a deeply personal account of her lifelong devotion to the stage. It will appeal to anyone interested in monarchy's place in popular culture.
Author | : Victor Glasstone |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Booth |
Publisher | : Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Katharine M Cockin |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Family History |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1526732068 |
How can you find out about the lives of ancestors who were involved in the world of theater: on stage and on film, in the music halls and traveling shows, in the circus and in all sorts of other forms of public performance? Katharine Cockin’s handbook provides a fascinating introduction for readers searching for information about ancestors who had clearly defined roles in the world of the theater and performance as well as those who left only a few tantalizing clues behind. The wider history of public performance is outlined, from its earliest origins in church rituals and mystery plays through periods of censorship driven by campaigns on moral and religious grounds up to the modern world of stage and screen. Case studies, which are a special feature of the book, demonstrate how the relevant records and be identified and interpreted, and they prove how much revealing information they contain. Information on relevant archives, books, museums and websites make this an essential guide for anyone who is keen to explore the subject.