Joe Miller's jests: or, The wits vade-mecum. [Compiled by J. Mottley]. Lond., 1739
Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Henry Huth
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Page : 986 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bookbinding
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Author : Amanda Weldy Boyd
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1783086688
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 1864
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Wit and humor
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