Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708

Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708

Author: Elisabeth J Heard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1317303431

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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call 'Restoration' to 'sentimental' comedy. Focusing on the career of the Irish dramatist George Farquhar (1678-1707), this book argues that experimentation was the basis for this change.


Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0521898609

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This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.


Restoration Staging, 1660-74

Restoration Staging, 1660-74

Author: Tim Keenan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317064690

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Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street, Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions, scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period, building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging, 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres, presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama.


The Annals of English Drama 975-1700

The Annals of English Drama 975-1700

Author: Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1134676344

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An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.


The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

Author: George Watson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1971-07-02

Total Pages: 1698

ISBN-13: 9780521079341

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.