Nineteenth Century British Theatre

Author : Kenneth Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317400186
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century British Theatre written by Kenneth Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0230589480
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performing Century written by T. Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Nineteenth Century British Theatre written by Kenneth Roland Richards and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marty Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136740538
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter written by Marty Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Nineteenth Century British Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Nineteenth Century British Theatre written by Kenneth Richards and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1971 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael V. Pisani
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382307
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York written by Michael V. Pisani and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music—in addition to song—was a common feature in the production of stage plays. The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521659826
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.

Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521348379
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre in the Victorian Age written by Michael R. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period.

Author : K. Newey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554903
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain written by K. Newey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.