Pizarro
Pizarro

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1770486070

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier in Peru first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatizes English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and critically engaged with Britain’s colonial exploits abroad. Pizarro is a play of firsts: the first use of music alongside action, the first collapsing set, the first production to inspire such celebratory ephemera as cartoons, portraits, postcards, even porcelain collector plates. Pizarro marks the end of eighteenth-century drama and the birth of a new theatrical culture. This edition features a comprehensive introduction and extensive appendices documenting the play’s first successful performances and global influence. It will appeal to students and scholars of Romantic literature, theatre history, post-colonialism, and Indigenous studies.

Pizarro. the Spaniards in Peru; Or, the Death of Rolla. a Tragedy, in Five Acts
Pizarro. the Spaniards in Peru; Or, the Death of Rolla. a Tragedy, in Five Acts

Author: August Von Kotzebue

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-18

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781379516262

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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: ++++ British Library T135718 With a final advertisement leaf. London: printed for R. Phillips. Sold by H. D. Symonds, and T. Hurst; Carpenter and Co., R. H. Westley; and by all other booksellers, 1799. vi, [2],93, [3]p.; 8°