Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781684483426
ISBN-13 : 1684483425
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Synopsis Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France by : Fayçal Falaky

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.

Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater

Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780820337890
ISBN-13 : 0820337897
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater by : Deborah Payne Fisk

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research
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Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Total Pages : 840
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000060810670
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Synopsis Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research by : Carl Joseph Stratman

This first comprehensive compilation of twentieth-century scholar­ship in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century drama provides a basis for future research and is an invaluable reference work. Items are arranged alphabetically under general headings--e.g., acting, criticism, periodicals, music, theology--as well as alphabetically by surname of actor, actress, dramatist, musician, etc. Copiously indexed.

Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : Broadview Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781770482838
ISBN-13 : 1770482830
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by : Tanya M. Caldwell

This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9780199554812
ISBN-13 : 0199554811
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by : Mary Pix

"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p

Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century

Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780313029905
ISBN-13 : 0313029903
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century by : Marvin A. Carlson

Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century, so much so that this era is sometimes called the Age of Voltaire. At a time when French culture dominated Europe, Voltaire dominated French culture. His influence was broad and powerful, and he made major contributions to almost every sphere of intellectual activity, including the sciences, trade and commerce, politics, and especially the arts. Despite the astonishing range of his literary activities, the theatre occupied a central position in his life from the beginning of his career to its close. His first and last literary triumphs were plays, the first written when he was only 17, the last completed when he was 84. He created a total of 56, and there was rarely a time in his life when he was not working on a theatrical script. At the end of his career, his works were produced more frequently on the French stage than those of any other serious dramatist and served as models for aspiring young playwrights throughout Europe. Written by a leading authority on French theatre and culture in the eighteenth century, this book traces the theatrical career of Voltaire from his college days through his final works. The most influential dramatist of the period, he successfully wrote in a number of genres, including tragedy, comedy, opera, comic opera, and court spectacle. His theatrical biography involves all aspects of acting and staging in amateur and society theatre as well as on major professional stages and performances at court. His extended visits to England and Germany are covered in chapters that also provide an introduction to the theatre in those countries, and his international interests and correspondence provide insights into the eighteenth century theatre in places such as Italy, Russia, and Denmark. Due to his literally life-long concern with the theatre, his dominance in this art, and his reputation and involvement with the theatre outside France, Voltaire's theatrical biography is also in large measure a chronicle of the European stage of the eighteenth century.

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1547
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ISBN-10 : 9781317426523
ISBN-13 : 1317426525
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama by : Kristina Straub

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660–1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700–1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760–1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period’s dramatic landscape—from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle—The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike.

Founders of the Future

Founders of the Future
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781684483877
ISBN-13 : 1684483875
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Founders of the Future by : Óscar Iván Useche

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization.

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition
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Publisher : Broadview Press
Total Pages : 1055
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ISBN-10 : 9781770483002
ISBN-13 : 1770483004
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition by : J. Douglas Canfield

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy." Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.

Fictions of Presence

Fictions of Presence
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9781783275588
ISBN-13 : 1783275588
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Fictions of Presence by : Rosalind Ballaster

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.