Comical Fellows Or The History And Mystery Of The Patomine
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Circle of Fire
Author | : William F. Axton |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813185734 |
This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly "dramatic" or "theatrical" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds that the three principal dramatic modes or "voices" that were characteristically Victorian were burlesquerie, grotesquerie, and the melodramatic, and that the novelist's vision of the world around him was drawn from ways of seeing transformed from those elements in the popular playhouse of his day—as revealed in the structure and theme of Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and other novels. The last half of the study analyzes representative passages from the novels to illustrate the way in which the principal modes of nineteenth-century theatrical style are transmuted into the three important "voices" of the novelist's prose style. The first two voices—the burlesque and the grotesque—are identified by their exploitation of the stylistic features of farce, extravaganza, and harlequinade, of incongruous likeness and deliberate confusion between realms. The melodramatic voice, on the other hand, seeks to exploit in prose the musically rhythmic and poetic resources of the theater for the purpose of atmosphere, moral commentary, and structural unity.
A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author | : Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) |
Publisher | : Boston : The Trustees |
Total Pages | : 976 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The Politics of the Pantomime
Author | : Jill Alexandra Sullivan |
Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1902806883 |
Focuses on the variety and independence of pantomime in the provinces, especially Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Explores official and local censorship and the relationships between local theaters, managers, authors and audiences.
A Social History of the Fool
Author | : Sandra Billington |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571299997 |
Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare's plays. However, as Sandra Billington shows in this pioneering study, the Fool has been with us from medieval times and has worn many guises: village idiot and sophisticated comedian, embodiment of Satan and God's own jester. He has managed, as Billington notes, 'to inspire or infect our thinking for at least eight hundred years'.
Plays by James Robinson Planché
Author | : James Robinson Planché |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1986-01-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521284417 |
James Robinson Planché was one of the most prolific and successful of nineteenth-century playwrights. In a career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred and eighty pieces of all types, from pantomime and farce to melodrama and opera, for production at a wide range of London theatres. This book offers a representative selection of his most popular plays. It includes one melodrama - The Vampire; or The Bride of the Isles (1820), which represents the first treatment of the vampire theme on the English stage; one farce - The Garrick Fever (1839); three 'fairy' extravaganzas - Beauty and the Beast (1841), Fortunio and his Seven Gifted Servants (1843), and The Discreet Princess; or, The Three Glass Distaffs (1855); one 'classical' extravaganza - The Golden Fleece; or, Jason in Colchis and Medea in Corinth (1845); and one revue of events in contemporary London - The Camp at the Olympic (1853). The volume includes a lengthy introduction which sets the plays in the theatrical context of their time, a chronological record of Planché's life, a complete list of his plays, and a bibliography.
Dickens and the Imagined Child
Author | : Peter Merchant |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317151216 |
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.
The Quarterly Review
Author | : William Gifford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Sale Catalogues
Author | : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1340 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |