Author : Thomas Clark Pollock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1512818410
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Thomas Clark Pollock
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Herman Wilson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1512819360
The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Author : James Harriman-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110883549X
Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.
Author : Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521825085
This 2003 book examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic.
Author : Professor Neal Zaslaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1349206288
From the series examining the development of music in specific places during particular times, this book looks at the classical period, in Europe and America, from Vienna and Salzburg to the Iberian courts and Philadelphia.
Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199257904
This is the second of three volumes of plays by Henry Fielding, whose vibrant early career in theatre has been overshadowed by his later fame as the author of novels like Tom Jones. The edition makes his plays, and his rich gift for theatrical comedy, accessible for the first time in modern form.
Author : Barry Witham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521308588
Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
Author : P. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230622712
Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.
Author : Justin McHenry
Publisher : Brookline Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1955041210
A wealth of stories showing why Philadelphia was America’s first great city in the years before the Revolution. Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement. The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving cultural heart of Colonial America. This is the dramatic story of Philadelphia’s ascension over the course of the final decades of colonial America, detailing along the way the lives of the people molding the city in their image. You will travel into the heady salon of Elizabeth Graeme. Be there with David Rittenhouse in his observatory tracking the transit of Venus. Experience the rise and fall of the friendship of John Morgan and William Shippen. Follow Anthony Benezet’s crusade against slavery. And witness the transformation of Philadelphia as its citizens gain their political voices to declare their independence. Raising Philadelphia takes the reader through this critical moment in American history to bring to life the vibrancy of Philadelphia as it rose up to become America’s first great city.
