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| Author | : Richard Schoch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2016-09-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107166926 |
A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Richard Schoch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2016-09-12 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1316739031 |
This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. In this compelling revisionist study, Richard Schoch reclaims the deep history of British theatre history, valorizing the usually overlooked scholarship undertaken by antiquarians, booksellers, bibliographers, journalists and theatrical insiders, none of whom considered themselves to be professional historians. Drawing together deep archival research, close readings of historical texts from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and an awareness of contemporary debates about disciplinary practice, Schoch overturns received interpretations of British theatre historiography and shows that the practice - and the diverse practitioners - of theatre history were far more complicated and far more sophisticated than we had realised. His book is a landmark contribution to how theatre historians today can understand their own history.
| Author | : Heidi Craig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2023-02-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1009224042 |
Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.
| Author | : Claire Cochrane |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2019-10-31 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1350034304 |
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.
| Author | : Lucy Hartley |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2018-09-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137584653 |
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
| Author | : Richard Eyre |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780747552543 |
An authoritative, spirited account of the history of twentieth century theatre by two of its most distinguished practitioners.
| 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 | : Susheila Nasta |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 862 |
| Release | : 2020-01-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108169007 |
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.
| Author | : Mary Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137294817 |
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.
| Author | : K. Newey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2005-11-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230554903 |
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
