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Author: Leslie Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1108475876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Author: Leslie Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1108693245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theatre's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theatre history and media studies.
Author: David Worrall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107043603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history.
Author: Heather Ladd
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-06-17
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1644532603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
Author: Ellis Cashmore
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 178743964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.
Author: Jonathan Mulrooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1107183871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.
Author: Stuart Sillars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107193249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucie Sutherland
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-03
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 303040935X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James. The book sheds new light on the figure of the actor-manager, assessing in detail the influence of Alexander within and beyond his time. At the St. James’s Theatre in London between 1891 and 1918, through a range of strategies including the support of new writers, and adaptation of fiction to the stage, Alexander sustained professional status through practices that continue to be reflected in the cultural industries today. A range of evidence is employed including production reviews, anecdotal accounts, financial records, and personal correspondence, to reveal how he operated as a business entrepreneur as well as an artistic innovator.
Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
Published: 1823
Total Pages: 574
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