British Enlightenment Theatre

Author : Bridget Orr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499716
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Enlightenment Theatre written by Bridget Orr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.

Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498140
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 written by David O'Shaughnessy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Author : Mechele Leon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135453
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment written by Mechele Leon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367580407
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367580407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780429463686
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people, and ethnic minorities, as well as the regional theatres of Wales and Scotland. Highly-illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment, tracing a movement from the outdoor and fringe to the heart of the social world. The Illustrated History acts as an accessible, flexible basis for students of the theatre, and for pure fans of British theatre history there could be no better starting point. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, volume two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to modernism and postdramatic theatre, Leach's second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British theatre history knowledge anyone could ever need."--

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448188
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramaturgy written by Mary Luckhurst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.

Author : James Van Horn Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521469692
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe written by James Van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Melton examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this a reassessment of what Habermas termed the bourgeois public sphere.

Author : Laura Estill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611495156
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts written by Laura Estill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032094069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people, and ethnic minorities, as well as the regional theatres of Wales and Scotland. Highly-illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props.