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Restoration Plays and Players

An Introduction

By: David Roberts

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Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration Drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316147975

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Domestick Privacies

Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

By: David Wheeler

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Domestick Privacies

Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

By: David Wheeler

Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the Lives in the classroom. Emerging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns—artistic and intellectual—that can be pursued in Johnson's biographical writings. On the one hand, they are complex creative works that reward literary analysis, traditional and modern. On the other, with their wide range, they offer a special insight into Johnson's eighteenth-century world—the state of biography at the time, the tradition of English poetry, literary criticism and its philosophical values, and, of course, Johnson himself with his powers and failings. Domestick Privacies thus offers important new perspectives not only to professed Johnsonians but to all who study biography, criticism, and the eighteenth century.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187737

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9780813187730

Celebrity, Performance, Reception

British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage

By: David Worrall

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Celebrity, Performance, Reception

British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage

By: David Worrall

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, unfamiliar play texts and rare printed sources. By examining prompters' records, box office receipts and benefit night takings, the study questions the status of David Garrick, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean, and recovers the neglected actress, Elizabeth Younge, and her importance to Edmund Burke.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107435978

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9781107435971

George Farquhar

A Migrant Life Reversed

By: David Roberts

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George Farquhar

A Migrant Life Reversed

By: David Roberts

George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar's works as documents of migration and the fragmented identity that resulted. Told in reverse chronological order, beginning with Farquhar's last and best-known works, it reveals previously undiscovered material about his life and connections. Born in Londonderry, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135005707X

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9781350057074

The Lives of George Frideric Handel

By: David Hunter

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The Lives of George Frideric Handel

By: David Hunter

How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783270616

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9781783270613

William Godwin and the Theatre

By: David O'Shaughnessy

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William Godwin and the Theatre

By: David O'Shaughnessy

William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin’s political project.

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Routledge

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1317323742

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Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

By: David Wheeler

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Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

By: David Wheeler

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813132908

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The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766

By: David Garrick

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The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766

By: David Garrick

David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all masterpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage historian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades. A Dramatic Satire, 1740; The Lying Valet, 1741; Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, 1747; Lilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, 1756; The Male-Coquette; or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, 1757; The Guardian. A Comedy, 1759; Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol, 1759; The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic. A Musical Drama, 1760; The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude, 1762; The Clandestine Marriage. A Comedy, 1766; and Neck or Nothing. A Farce, 1766.

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SIU Press

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0809308622

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Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3

The Black Death, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

By: David Deming

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Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3

The Black Death, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

By: David Deming

This installment in a series on science and technology in world history begins in the fourteenth century, explaining the origin and nature of scientific methodology and the relation of science to religion, philosophy, military history, economics and technology. Specific topics covered include the Black Death, the Little Ice Age, the invention of the printing press, Martin Luther and the Reformation, the birth of modern medicine, the Copernican Revolution, Galileo, Kepler, Isaac Newton, and the Scientific Revolution.

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McFarland

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0786490861

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9780786490868

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: David Wyn Jones

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Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: David Wyn Jones

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field looks at various aspects of musical life in eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed Handel and London as its primary constituents.

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1351557416

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Book's by David Erskine Baker

Restoration Plays and Players

Restoration Plays and Players

Domestick Privacies

Domestick Privacies

Celebrity, Performance, Reception

Celebrity, Performance, Reception

George Farquhar

George Farquhar

The Lives of George Frideric Handel

The Lives of George Frideric Handel

William Godwin and the Theatre

William Godwin and the Theatre

Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

Domestick Privacies: Samuel Johnson and the Art of Biography

The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766

The Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's own plays, 1740-1766

Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3

Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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