London Civic Theatre
Title | London Civic Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Lancashire |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2002-10-24 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521632782 |
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Civic Performance
Title | Civic Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781032174884 |
Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London. This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor's Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, and in doing so offers a study that is multi-faceted and wide-ranging, much like civic performance itself. Ideal for scholars of Early Modern global politics, economics, and culture; literary and performance studies; print culture; and the digital humanities, Civic Performance casts a new lens on street pageantry and entertainments in the historically and culturally significant locus of Early Modern London.
London Road
Title | London Road PDF eBook |
Author | Alecky Blythe |
Publisher | NHB Modern Plays |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | City dwellers |
ISBN | 9781848421769 |
The extraordinary work of verbatim musical theatre about the impact of the Ipswich prostitute murders.
Mean Girls
Title | Mean Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Nell Benjamin |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2019-09-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781540042811 |
Typescript, dated Rehearsal Draft April 7, 2018. Without music. Unmarked typescript of a musical that opened April 8, 2018, at the August Wilson Theatre, New York, N.Y., directed by Casy Nicholaw.
Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London
Title | Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bayer |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1609380398 |
Taking to heart Thomas Heywood’s claim that plays “persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy,” Mark Bayer’s captivating new study argues that the early modern London theatre was an important community institution whose influence extended far beyond its economic, religious, educational, and entertainment contributions. Bayer concentrates not on the theatres where Shakespeare’s plays were performed but on two important amphitheatres, the Fortune and the Red Bull, that offer a more nuanced picture of the Jacobean playgoing industry. By looking at these playhouses, the plays they staged, their audiences, and the communities they served, he explores the local dimensions of playgoing. Focusing primarily on plays and theatres from 1599 to 1625, Bayer suggests that playhouses became intimately engaged with those living and working in their surrounding neighborhoods. They contributed to local commerce and charitable endeavors, offered a convivial gathering place where current social and political issues were sifted, and helped to define and articulate the shared values of their audiences. Bayer uses the concept of social capital, inherent in the connections formed among individuals in various communities, to construct a sociology of the theatre from below—from the particular communities it served—rather than from the broader perspectives imposed from above by church and state. By transacting social capital, whether progressive or hostile, the large public amphitheatres created new and unique groups that, over the course of millions of visits to the playhouses in the Jacobean era, contributed to a broad range of social practices integral to the daily lives of playgoers. In lively and convincing prose that illuminates the significant reciprocal relationships between different playhouses and their playgoers, Bayer shows that theatres could inform and benefit London society and the communities geographically closest to them.
Wicked
Title | Wicked PDF eBook |
Author | Winnie Holzman |
Publisher | Applause Theatre & Cinema |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781423492764 |
Each title in The Applause Libretto Library Series presents a Broadway musical with fresh packaging in a 6 x 9 trade paperback format. Each Complete Book and Lyrics is approved by the writers and attractively designed with color photo inserts from the Broadway production. All titles include introduction and foreword by renowned Broadway musical experts. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and very popular. The story of how these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
Medieval London
Title | Medieval London PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Barron |
Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2017-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1580442579 |
Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.