An Illustrated History Of British Theatre And Performance
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Author | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2018-12-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0429873336 |
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.
Author | : Simon Trussler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : 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 | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780367580391 |
Author | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780815374824 |
Volume 1. From the Romans to the Enlightenment
Author | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2018-12-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0429873360 |
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment, tracing a movement from the outdoor and fringe to the heart of the social world. The Illustrated History acts as an accessible, flexible basis for students of the theatre, and for pure fans of British theatre history there could be no better starting point.
Author | : Robert Leach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780367580407 |
Author | : John Russell Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford Illustrated History |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192854421 |
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
Author | : Marion Geisinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Milling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 0521650682 |
Author | : T. Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230589480 |
This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.