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The eighteenth century produced more inventive actors than fine dramatists, and it displayed its actors to increasing advantage as theatre management became more expert, and stage design more ambitious. First published in 1972, the eleven papers collected in The Eighteenth-Century English Stage, ori.
The Public's Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women s status in the public world became the focus.
Essays on the Eighteenth Century English Stage: The Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Manchester University Department by Richards, Kenneth and Thomson, Peter COVID-19 Update April 3, 2020: Biblio is open and shipping orders.
Essays on the eighteenth-century English stage: the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Manchester University Department of Drama.
Waldo Sumner Glock, Eighteenth-Century English Literary Studies: A Bibliography (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1984; 847 pp.), a selective annotated list of studies from 1925 to 1980 on 25 authors, is an occasionally serviceable compilation of listings from ECCB, MLAIB, ABELL, and Year’s Work in English Studies.
Before 1660 there was no English novel, and by the end of the eighteenth century there was Jane Austen. This module asks how such a literary revolution was possible. It investigates the rise of professional authorship in an increasingly open marketplace for books. With commercial expansion came.
This module explores drama between two dates that mark and redefine the powerful and vexed relationship between the state and the stage in Britain: the first is 1737, when the Stage Licensing Act established theatrical censorship; the second is 1832, a year which saw not only the passing of the Reform Act but also an urgent parliamentary enquiry into the standards of playwriting and performance.
Why prostitution flourished in England in the 18th century. Several factors led to flourishing of prostitution in England and more so in London in the 18th century. London being a port city received many sailors. There were several districts in the city that provided for sailors.
Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720.
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors.
The eighteenth century saw English stage actors experience rising social and professional status, and the image of the actor assumed an unprecedented cultural significance in the public sphere. McPherson suggests that porcelain manufacturers sought to harness the burgeoning culture of consumer demand for luxury commodities as well as the.
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century Bucknell University Press, March 2014 978-1-61148-559-2 Hardback 978-1-61148-560-8 eBook Contribution: Introduction and one essay This is the first collection of essays about disability in the eighteenth century. The introduction explores my idea of Variability as an organising principle for the.
