Harlequin Empire
Harlequin Empire

Author: David Worrall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1317315480

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Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.

A Passion for Performance
A Passion for Performance

Author: Shelley Bennett

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1999-09-02

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0892365579

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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Michael Dobson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 0198708734

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This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.