Garrick's Pupil

Garrick's Pupil
Author: Augustin Filon
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'Garrick's Pupil' is a romance novel. Seventeen year old actress Esther Woodville arrives in London for her theatre performances, where she becomes acquainted with Lady Vereker. Both ladies are known to the hedonistic young Lord Mowbray, who has been making advances to Esther. Lady Vereker on the other hand is his former lover and wants to win him back. Meanwhile Esther is having her portrait done by the famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. His young assistant Francis Monday, an orphan taken in by Sir Joshua, oddly resembles Lord Mowbray, and can't help but steal glances at Esther...

David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity

David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108475876

Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.

Pleasure Me

Pleasure Me
Author: Monica Burns
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101478764

From the author of Assassin's Honor, a bold and sexy new historical romance. Youth and beauty are a courtesan's greatest assets. Concerned, at forty-one, that she is no longer desirable, Lady Ruth Attwood is uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable-she falls in love...

Ungoverning Dance

Ungoverning Dance
Author: Ramsay Burt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199321930

Ungoverning Dance examines recent contemporary dance in continental Europe. Placing this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, it argues that dancers are developing an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies. It attests to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living.

Captain

Captain
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1909
Genre: Hobbies
ISBN:

Shadowland

Shadowland
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101665505

“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.