A Performance History of The Fair Penitent
A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

Author: Elaine McGirr

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-13

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1009351834

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Theatre is the most ephemeral of art forms. It is a truism that the ephemeral performance text is divorced from the static published play text. This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how readers can recover elements of performance through close attention to text. Traces of performance adhere to the mediascape in playbills and puffs, reviews and accounts. The printed text also preserves traces of performance in notation and illustration. By analysing traces found in performance trends, casting decisions, publication histories and repertory intertexts, this Element recovers how The Fair Penitent was interpreted at different points in the century and explains how a play that bombed in its first season could become a repertory staple.

The Fair Penitent
The Fair Penitent

Author: Nicholas Rowe

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020958830

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The Fair Penitent is a powerful tragedy that explores the themes of love, jealousy, and betrayal. Written by Nicholas Rowe and first performed in 1703, it tells the story of a woman named Calista who is torn between her love for a nobleman named Lothario and her commitment to her fiancé, Horatio. This edition includes a new introduction and extensive notes that illuminate the play's historical and cultural context. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Fair Penitent. a Tragedy. by Nicholas Rowe, Esq.
The Fair Penitent. a Tragedy. by Nicholas Rowe, Esq.

Author: NICHOLAS. ROWE

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781385282052

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ John Rylands University Library of Manchester T200900 London: printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, 1791. 37, [1]p., plate; 18°