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Author | : Kenneth Richards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317400186 |
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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 | : Kenneth Roland Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Kenneth Richards |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English drama |
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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 | : Emily Allen |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Actors in literature |
ISBN | : 9780814209318 |
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Why did nineteenth-century novels return, over again, to the scene of theater? Emily Allen argues that theater provided nineteenth-century novels, novelists, and critics with a generic figure that allowed them to position particular novels and novelistic genres within a complex literary field. Novel genres high and low, male and female, public and private, realistic and romantic, all came to identify themselves within a set of coordinates that included--if only for the purpose of exclusion--the spectacular figure of theater. This figure likewise provided a trope around and against which to construct images of readers and authors, images that most frequently worked to mediate between the supposedly private acts of reading and writing and the very public facts of the print market. In readings of novels by Burney, Austen, Scott, Dickens, Jewsbury, Flaubert, Braddon, and Moore, Allen shows how frequently theater appears as figure in novels of the nineteenth century, and how theater figures--actively and importantly--in what we have come to look back on as the history of the nineteenth-century novel. "Theater Figures thus offers a new model for thinking about how theater helped produce changes in the nineteenth-century literary market. While previous critics have considered theater as an enabling foil for the novel--either a constitutive opposite or constructive ally--Allen demonstrates how theater figures and tropes were used to negotiate competition among the novels and novelists eagerly seeking their share of the literary limelight.
Author | : K. Newey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230554903 |
Download Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
Author | : Michael R. Booth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521348379 |
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A comprehensive survey of the theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period.