Author: William RoscoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, Or Harlequin and the Genius of Spring
Author: William RoscoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, Or Harlequin and the Genius of Spring
Author: William RoscoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781022361133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This charming Christmas pantomime is based on William Roscoe's popular poem 'The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.' Featuring harlequins, geniuses of spring, and a host of other whimsical characters, this work is perfect for children and adults alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Annals of the Liverpool Stage
Author: R. J. BroadbentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Zouave Theaters
Author: Carol E. HarrisonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807182109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the nineteenth century’s most important military fashion fad for men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. Originating in French colonial Algeria, the uniform was characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez. As Harrison and Brown demonstrate, the Zouaves embraced ethnic, racial, and gender crossing, liberating themselves from the strictures of bourgeois society. Some served as soldiers in Papal Rome, the United States, the British West Indies, and Brazil, while others acted in theatrical performances that combined drag and drill. Zouave Theaters analyzes the interaction of the stage and the military, and reveals that the Zouave persona influenced visual artists from painters and photographers to illustrators and filmmakers.
Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires
Author: Tracy C. DavisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009297538
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Examining activist performance techniques, this book shows how women and men could deeply influence public life in the nineteenth century.
Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage
Author: Richard FoulkesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351922335
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, influential contributions to the debate on child actors, and the friendship of leading players, especially Ellen Terry. As well as being a key to his complex and enigmatic personality, Carroll's interest in the theatre provides a vivid account of a remarkable era on the stage that encompassed Charles Kean's Shakespeare revivals, the comic genius of Frederick Robson, the heyday of pantomime, Gilbert and Sullivan, opera bouffe, the Terry sisters, Henry Irving, and favourite playwrights Tom Taylor, H. A. Jones, and J. M. Barrie. With attention to the complex motives that compelled Carroll to attend stage performances, Foulkes examines the incomparable record of over forty years as a playgoer that Carroll left for posterity.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Artist of Wonderland
Author: Frankie MorrisPublisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718847849
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books. In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and his fifty years with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. Tenniel's countrymen thought his work would embody for future historians the 'trend and character' of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled. The biography is followed by three sections on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures. Morris also demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day, from the Eastern Question to Lincoln and the American Civil War, examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist who mythologized the world for generations of Britons.
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