The Restoration Theatre

Author : Deborah Payne Fisk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825674
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre written by Deborah Payne Fisk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for select dramatists and elite courtiers, the Restoration theatre is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. The fourteen newly-commissioned essays examine the theatre, paying attention to major playwrights such as Dryden, Wycherly and Congreve and also to more minor works and to plays by the first professional female dramatists. The book begins with chapters on the performance of the drama in its own time, on theatres, acting and staging, and continues with the main dramatic genres and themes, with a final chapter on the critical history of the drama. The volume also includes a thorough chronology and biographies and bibliographies of dramatists.

Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826948
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn written by Derek Hughes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831194
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting in Restoration Comedy written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). The art of acting in restoration comedy, the buoyant, often bowdy romps which celebrated the reopening of the English theatres after Cromwell's dour reign, is the subject of Simon Callow's bold investigation. There is cause again to celebrate as Callow, one of Britain's foremost actors, aims to restore the form to all its original voluptuous vigor. Callow shows the way to attain clarity and hilarity in some of the most delightful roles ever conceived for the theatre.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521274210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Comedy in Performance written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.

Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611494230
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater written by Diana Solomon and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405176101
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restoration Theatre written by Montague Summers and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jocelyn Powell
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Theatre Production written by Jocelyn Powell and published by London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice Preserv'd written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1682 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049675
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Restoration Drama written by Susan J. Owen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.