The Ocean of Life, Or, Every Inch a Sailor
Author: John Thomas Haines
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 30
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Author: John Thomas Haines
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arnold Schmidt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1315530031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays in included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from the original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further. The appendices include maps of Britain, Europe, and the East and West Indies.
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 460
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Kaiser
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-12-07
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0804778949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 1636
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Author: C. Raymond Calhoun
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 800 sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943.
Author: Mrs. Grace Townsend
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Moody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521039864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Author: Grace Townsend
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 570
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