Letters on Literature by Photius Junior
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Total Pages: 376
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Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Sherlock
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Halkett
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 462
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amanda Weldy Boyd
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1783086688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
Author: Catherine Curzon
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1473872545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's supposed secret marriage to a pretty Quaker?With everything from illegitimate children to illegal marriages, dead valets and equerries sneaking about the palace by candlelight, these eyebrow-raising tales from the reign of George III prove that the highest of births is no guarantee of good behavior. Prepare to meet some shocking ladies, some shameless gentlemen and some politicians who really should know better. So tighten your stays, hoist up your breeches and prepare for a gallop through some of the most shocking royal scandals from the court of George III's court. You'll never look at a king in the same way again…
Author: John Davis Mullins
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 610
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 1638
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Thomas
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 268
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