Alfonso, king of Castile: a tragedy [in verse.].
Author : Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1801
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Author : Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
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Author : Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 1802
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Author : British Museum
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1881
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Page : 584 pages
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Author : George Augustus Sala
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Laura Dabundo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135232342
First Published in 1992, this encyclopedia is designed to survey the social, cultural and intellectual climate of English Romanticism from approximately the 1780s and the French Revolution to the 1830s and the Reform Bill. Focussing on ‘the spirit of the age’, the book deals with the aesthetic, scientific, socioeconomic – indeed the human – environment in which the Romantics flourished. The books considers poets, playwrights and novelists; critics, editors and booksellers; painters, patrons and architects; as well as ideas, trends, fads, and conventions, the familiar and the newly discovered. The book will be of use for everyone from undergraduate English students, through to thesis-driven graduate students to teaching faculty and scholars.
Author : Louis F. Peck
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 178720989X
Matthew Lewis (17775-1818), author of The Monk—one of the most famous of gothic novels—is attracting increasing attention for his own talent and his pre-eminence in the gothic school. The gothic mode, aside from its intrinsic interest, is important because of its distinct influence in British, continental, and American literature. Yet a full-length biography of Lewis has not appeared since 1839. For the nonspecialist seeking an introduction to Romanticism and the Regency, Lewis is a valuable man to know, with his varied literary interests—poetry, the novel, drama—and his wide acquaintance: royalty, the peerage, literary celebrities like Byron, Scott, Shelley, Sheridan, and the theatrical world. As a writer he showed uncanny anticipation of popular literary trends and a talent for the spectacular. This new biography, based on information which has appeared since 1839 and on new material, presents the whole man, not a selection of eccentricities. It includes treatment of all his works and a section of newly edited correspondence.
Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1365948587
The Castle Spectre was first performed at Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1797 and quickly became a dramatic standard during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Lewis' Gothic play was one of the first to combine the action on stage with both music and special effects in order to evoke an emotional overload from theatre-goers. It was quite common, according to contemporary accounts, for members of the audience to pass out from fright during performances of The Castle Spectre. The Playwright, Matthew Lewis, was one of the originators of early Literary Gothic with his novel, The Monk. This edition includes the text of the original five-act play, a condensed three-act version, biographies of the original performers, newspaper adverts, contemporary reviews and critiques, the original musical score, and a critical introduction.
Author : Joseph W. Donohue Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1400873029
This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor; the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second. What effects did this highly subjective, interpretive emphasis have on the drama? Where did it originate and how did it evolve? These questions are considered at length in the author's analysis of the nature of Romanticism itself as revealed in essays, novels, criticism, and by the actors themselves. The Jacobean origins of this revolutionary period are reviewed, followed by a close scrutiny of the critical writing of such contemporary thinkers as Hazlitt, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. This entirely new concept provides an important link between the practical theater and the contemporary philosophical thought of the time. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.