Much ado about nothing, a comedy, as arranged for the stage by H. Irving and presented at the Lyceum theatre on ... Oct. 11, 1882
Title | Much ado about nothing, a comedy, as arranged for the stage by H. Irving and presented at the Lyceum theatre on ... Oct. 11, 1882 PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1882 |
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Much Ado about Nothing
Title | Much Ado about Nothing PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | English drama |
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle
Title | Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Duncan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192508210 |
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siècle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siècle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siècle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siècle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the 'Jack the Ripper' killings, Aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siècle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siècle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siècle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.
English editions. English Shakespeariana, A. - Finzi
Title | English editions. English Shakespeariana, A. - Finzi PDF eBook |
Author | Birmingham Shakespeare Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1971 |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
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The Theatre
Title | The Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Clement Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 722 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
The Theatre
Title | The Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Actors |
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Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.