A History of English Drama 1660-1900

A History of English Drama 1660-1900

Author: Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9780521109314

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.


Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age

Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age

Author: Philip George Hill

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780838631072

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A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.


The Invention of the Oral

The Invention of the Oral

Author: Paula McDowell

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 022645701X

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Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.


Dramma Per Musica

Dramma Per Musica

Author: Reinhard Strohm

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780300064544

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'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.


The Politics of Parody

The Politics of Parody

Author: David Francis Taylor

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0300235593

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This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor’s book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history.