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Author | : Johanne M. Stochholm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317645898 |
The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town hall and the presentation by Garrick of a statue of Shakespeare. Immense interest, enthusiasm, and controversy were aroused by the plans, which involved not only theatrical and rhetorical festivities but fireworks, processions and a horserace. This book was originally published in 1964 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. It describes the festival, which touched heights of success and depths of disaster, its impact on Stratford, its after effects in London, especially theatrical London, where rival managers tried to cash in on Garrick’s idea and where Garrick turned the Stratford failure into resounding success at Drury Lane. The author quotes entertainingly from newspapers, memoirs, and plays, and illustrates her book with contemporary engravings and portraits.
Author | : Johanne Magdalene Stochholm |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Garrick, David |
ISBN | : 9780719008580 |
Author | : Peter Sabor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351900765 |
In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of this fascinating volume, which brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. The contributors approach Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, to illuminate the way contemporary philosophy, science and medicine, textual practice, theatre studies, and literature both informed and were influenced by eighteenth-century interpretations of his works. Among the topics are Falstaff and eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime, David Garrick's 1756 adaptation of The Winter's Tale and its relationship to medical theories of femininity, the textual practices of George Steevens, Shakespeare's importance in furthering the careers of actors on the eighteenth-century stage, and the influence of Shakespeare on writers as diverse as Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Ann Radcliff. Together, the essays paint a vivid picture of the relationship between eighteenth-century Shakespeare and ideas about shared nationhood, knowledge, morality, history, and the self.
Author | : J. Stockholm |
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Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Arthur Murphy |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1801 |
Genre | : Actors |
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Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0300141262 |
James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
Author | : Thomas Davies |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9780405084393 |
Author | : Augustin Filon |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : French fiction |
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Author | : Arthur Murphy |
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Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1801 |
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