Ellen Terry Spheres Of Influence

Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323076
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence written by Katharine Cockin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.

Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781851961511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry written by Katharine Cockin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.

Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040129013
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part V, Volume 3 written by Tetsuo Kishi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

Author : Sophie Duncan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508229
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle written by Sophie Duncan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siècle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siècle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siècle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siècle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the 'Jack the Ripper' killings, Aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siècle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siècle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siècle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.

Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131547767X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 5 written by Katharine Cockin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.

Author : Sophie Duncan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198790848
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle written by Sophie Duncan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siecle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siecle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siecle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siecle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siecle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the "Jack the Ripper" killings, aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siecle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siecle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siecle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030783189
Total Pages : 1753 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing written by Lesa Scholl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 1753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Katharine M Cockin
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
ISBN 13 : 1526732068
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing Your Theatrical Ancestors written by Katharine M Cockin and published by Pen and Sword Family History. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : C. Boyce
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113700794X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle written by C. Boyce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517489
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare at War written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.