Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521886994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521886994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910
Author: Melissa S. Van Vuuren
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810877276
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810877276
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.
The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
Author: Carolyn Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709593X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709593X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
Author: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847652X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847652X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
Author: Ric Knowles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425488
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
An up-to-date, contextualized assessment of the impact of the 'festivalization' of culture around the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425488
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
An up-to-date, contextualized assessment of the impact of the 'festivalization' of culture around the world.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827251
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827251
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950
Author: Rebecca D'Monte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408166011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca D'Monte examines how the emphasis upon the working class, 'angry' drama from the 1950s has led to the neglect of much of the century's earlier drama, positioning the book as part of the current debate about the relationship between war and culture, the middlebrow, and historiography. In a comprehensive survey of the period, the book considers: - the Edwardian theatre; - the theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals; -the interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism; - the theatre of the Second World War and post-war period. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period's theatre and demonstrate its relevance to the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama this will prove one of the foundational texts.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408166011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca D'Monte examines how the emphasis upon the working class, 'angry' drama from the 1950s has led to the neglect of much of the century's earlier drama, positioning the book as part of the current debate about the relationship between war and culture, the middlebrow, and historiography. In a comprehensive survey of the period, the book considers: - the Edwardian theatre; - the theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals; -the interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism; - the theatre of the Second World War and post-war period. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period's theatre and demonstrate its relevance to the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama this will prove one of the foundational texts.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
Author: Shaun Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008730
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008730
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this Companion, first published in 2000, specially-commissioned essays examine the social and cultural context of Victorian fiction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this Companion, first published in 2000, specially-commissioned essays examine the social and cultural context of Victorian fiction.