Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-raisers, and Afterpieces

Author: Daniel James Ennis

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780874139679

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to playhouse audiences from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play itself, but on what surrounded the mainpiece for the total theater experience of the day. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance texts, including prologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpieces, that merged to define the overall theatrical event.

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Author: Diana Solomon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1611494222

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater

Author: Diana Solomon

Publisher: University of Delaware

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1611494230

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

Author: Jack Lynch

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0191019682

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

The Gothic Novel and the Stage
The Gothic Novel and the Stage

Author: Francesca Saggini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317319516

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.

Eighteenth Century English Poetry
Eighteenth Century English Poetry

Author: Peter Thorpe

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780882291963

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Novel horizons
Novel horizons

Author: Gerd Bayer

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1526100495

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about the poetics of a genre was echoed in the paratextual material of prose fictions. In the absence of an official poetics that defined prose fiction, paratexts fulfilled this function and informed readers about the budding genre. This study traces the piecemeal development of these boundaries and describes the generic competence of readers through the analysis of paratexts and prose fictions. Novel horizons covers the surviving textual material widely, focusing on narrative prose fictions published between 1660 and 1710. In addition to tracing the paratextual poetics of Restoration fiction, this book also covers the state of the art of fiction-writing during the period, discussing character development, narrative point of view and questions of fictionality and realism.