Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107166926
A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.
Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009224042
Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.
Author : Claire Cochrane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350034304
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.
Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137584653
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521794305
Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.
Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108169007
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.
Author : Richard Eyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780747552543
An authoritative, spirited account of the history of twentieth century theatre by two of its most distinguished practitioners.
Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137294817
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.
Author : K. Newey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230554903
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.
Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817371117
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.
