The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

Author: Kerry Powell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-02-19

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521795364

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This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Author: Francis O'Gorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1139828444

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The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.

The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

Author: Andrew Kahn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-12-21

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13: 1139827413

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Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at his enduring legacy in music and film from his own day to the present. Special attention is given to the reinvention of Pushkin as a cultural icon during the Soviet period. No other volume available brings together such a range of material and such comprehensive coverage of all Pushkin's major and minor writings. The contributions represent state-of-the-art scholarship that is innovative and accessible, and are complemented by a chronology and a guide to further reading.

Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910
Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910

Author: Melissa S. Van Vuuren

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0810877279

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This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.

The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science

Author: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 110847652X

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The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

Author: Stephen Bottoms

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-21

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780521834551

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Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.

Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts

Author: Matthew Reason

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 1000537986

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The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance. This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines. This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.

The Cambridge Companion to the Actress
The Cambridge Companion to the Actress

Author: John Stokes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 4

ISBN-13: 1139827456

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This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the actress as a courtesan, as a 'muse', as a representative of the 'ordinary' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct theatre-goers and students alike.