Henry Irvings Waterloo

Author : W. D. King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520333322
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving's Waterloo written by W. D. King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author : Austin Brereton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Henry Irving written by Austin Brereton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. D. King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520080720
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving's Waterloo written by W. D. King and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an extraordinary, provocative, and informative book which covers a wide range of aspects of the theatre of the time and touches upon a large number of individual artists and personalities. The book locates a theatrical phenomenon in the larger culture, drawing upon documents around and beyond the theatre itself. It will shake up complacent scholars, generate a new methodological freedom, and open up a whole period to sophisticated and creative cultural analysis."--Cary M. Mazer, author of Shakespeare Refashioned "W. D. King has developed an original close-reading of a particular (and only apparently marginal) episode of theatrical history and has placed that episode within a network of crucial cultural issues and values. The book is original in methodology, elegant in its argument, and persuasive in its conclusions."--Joseph R. Roach, author of The Player's Passion

Author : Joseph Hatton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving's Impressions of America written by Joseph Hatton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Austin Brereton
Publisher : London : Bogue
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving written by Austin Brereton and published by London : Bogue. This book was released on 1883 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Hatton
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving's Impressions of America written by Joseph Hatton and published by London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. This book was released on 1884 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mortimer Menpes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving written by Mortimer Menpes and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Frederic Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving in England and America 1838-84 written by Louis Frederic Austin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Hiatt
Publisher : London : G. Bell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving written by Charles Hiatt and published by London : G. Bell. This book was released on 1899 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351156462
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Irving written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.