Download A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to by Professor Philip H Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Kalman A PDF

By Professor Philip H Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Kalman A Burnim PhD, Edward A. Langhans

Volumes 3 and 4 of this monumen­tal paintings contain complete entries for all such illustrious names as these of the Cibbers—Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria—Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the more youthful, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. yet the following are also complete entries for dozens of vital secondary figures and of stripling ones whose tales have by no means been instructed, in addition to a census (and no less than a couple of recoverable evidence) for even the main inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres.

 

As within the past volumes during this dis­tinguished sequence, the accompanying illus­trations contain not less than one photo of every topic for whom a portrait exists.

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Download Complete Works of Seneca (Illustrated) by Seneca PDF

By Seneca

The prime Stoic thinker of the Silver Age of Latin literature, in addition to show to the notorious Nero, Seneca was once additionally an entire dramatist, whose ground-breaking tragedies replaced the process theatre writing. the traditional Classics sequence presents eReaders with the knowledge of the Classical global, with either English translations and the unique Latin texts. For the 1st time in publishing background, readers can benefit from the whole works of Seneca the more youthful in one quantity, with attractive illustrations, informative introductions and the standard Delphi bonus fabric. (Version 1)

* superbly illustrated with pictures with regards to Seneca's existence and works
* gains the full extant works of Seneca, in either English translation and the unique Latin
* Concise introductions to the essays and different works
* comprises translations formerly showing in Loeb Classical Library variations of Seneca’s works
* very good formatting of the texts
* contains part numbers — perfect for students
* simply find the sections, epistles or works you must learn with person contents tables
* contains Seneca's infrequent physique of essays normal QUESTIONS, first time in electronic print
* contains a bonus biography - notice Seneca's historical world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Tragedies
THE insanity OF HERCULES
THE TROJAN WOMEN
THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN
PHAEDRA
THYESTES
HERCULES ON OETA
AGAMEMNON
OEDIPUS
MEDEA
OCTAVIA

The Epistles
TO MARCIA, ON CONSOLATION
TO MY mom HELVIA, ON CONSOLATION
TO POLYBIUS, ON CONSOLATION
THE ethical EPISTLES

The Essays
ON ANGER
ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE
THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF THE DIVINE CLAUDIUS
ON THE FIRMNESS OF THE clever PERSON
ON CLEMENCY
ON THE chuffed LIFE
ON LEISURE
NATURAL QUESTIONS
ON BENEFITS
ON TRANQUILLITY OF MIND
ON PROVIDENCE

The Latin Texts
LIST OF LATIN TEXTS

The Biography
INTRODUCTION TO SENECA via John W. Basore

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Download Alice May: Gilbert & Sullivan's First Prima Donna (Forgotten by Adrienne Simpson PDF

By Adrienne Simpson

This biography tells the tale of Alice may possibly, a traveling prima donna within the 19th century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the united states, playing pioneering performances of the preferred gentle operas of the day. alongside the way in which she took half in lots of premieres, together with the 1st creation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer and the 1st approved American construction of The Mikado . This vibrant lifestyles tale will attract theatre historians, fanatics of the melodrama, burlesque, and the musical level.

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Download Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of by Nadine Holdsworth PDF

By Nadine Holdsworth

This booklet explores the ways in which pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ websites can supply a wealthy resource of fabric for chatting with the modern second as a result resonances or institutions they give of a special time, position, politics, or tradition. that includes a huge foreign scope, it deals a chain of thought-provoking essays that discover how playwrights, administrators, theatre-makers, and function artists have re-staged or re-worked a vintage nationwide play, functionality, theatrical shape, or theatre house to be able to interact with conceptions of and questions round the country, nationalism, and nationwide id within the modern second, establishing up new methods of considering or problematizing questions round the country and nationwide identification. Chapters ask how productions interact with a specific second within the nationwide psyche within the context of internationalism and globalization, for instance, in addition to how productions discover the interconnectivity of countries, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. in addition they discover questions with regards to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. the quantity highlights how theatre and function has the facility to contest and unsettle rules of the kingdom and nationwide identification by utilizing numerous websites, stagings, and function concepts, and the way modern theatres have portrayed nationwide agendas and characters at a time of extreme cultural flux and repositioning.

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Download Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London by Siobhan Keenan PDF

By Siobhan Keenan

Performing businesses and their performs in Shakespeare's London explores the intimate and dynamic dating among performing businesses and playwrights during this seminal period in English theatre background. Siobhan Keenan's research comprises chapters at the traditions and workings of latest performing businesses, playwriting practices, levels and staging, audiences and buyers, each one illustrated with specified case experiences of person performing businesses and their performs, together with troupes similar to girl Elizabeth's avid gamers, 'Beeston's Boys' and the King's males and works by way of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Brome and Heywood. we're conversant in targeting person playwrights: performing businesses and their performs in Shakespeare's London makes the case that we additionally have to take into consideration the corporations for which dramatists wrote and with whose contributors they collaborated, if we want to higher comprehend the dramas of the English Renaissance level.

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Download Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre PDF

In recent times, classicists have began aggressively to discover the influence of functionality at the ways that Greek and Roman performs are built and liked, either of their unique functionality context and in reperformances right down to the current day. whereas by no means wasting sight of the playscripts, it is important to undertake a extra inclusive perspective, one integrating insights from archaeology, artwork, heritage, functionality concept, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and glossy functionality reception. This quantity contributes to the recovery of a much-needed stability among functionality and textual content: it really is dedicated to exploring how performance-related issues (including degree enterprise, mask, costumes, props, functionality house, and stage-sets) aid us reach an greater appreciation of historical theatre.

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Download Essential Self-Defense: A Play by Adam Rapp PDF

By Adam Rapp

In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a task as an assault dummy in a women's self-defense type and unearths himself mysteriously attracted to Sadie, the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her abilities on him. in the meantime, all's now not good at the unassuming Midwestern streets of Bloggs: with neighborhood young children vanishing at an alarming price, our hero, his female friend, and a motley collection of poets, butchers, and punk librarians organize to conflict the darkness at the fringe of city.

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Download Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr PDF

By Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Evolutionary conception made its level debut as early because the 1840s, reflecting a systematic development that was once quick altering the realm. Tracing this improvement in dozens of mainstream ecu and American performs, in addition to in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett finds the deep, transformative entanglement between technology, artwork, and tradition in sleek times.

The degree proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary technological know-how, even though, frequently resisting and changing the information at its middle. Many dramatists forged suspicion at the arguments of evolutionary idea and rejected its claims, while they entertained its exciting chances. enticing at once with the relation of technology and tradition, this booklet considers the effect of not just Darwin but in addition Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and different evolutionists on a hundred and fifty years of theater. It stocks major new insights into the paintings of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes girl playwrights, equivalent to Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical list, unpacking their dramatic explorations of organic determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal intuition, and the "cult of motherhood."

It is probably going that extra humans encountered evolution on the theater than via the other paintings shape within the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries. contemplating the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a various neighborhood of spectators and the facility that involves, this e-book is a key textual content for greedy the level of the public's variation to the recent thought and the legacy of its illustration at the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of clinical paintings.

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Download At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story by Edward Albee PDF

By Edward Albee

'I've been to the zoo.' those starting phrases usher the viewers into some of the most iconic performs in American theatre historical past: The Zoo Story.

More than fifty years later, grasp playwright Edward Albee (Who's scared of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or who's Sylvia?) wrote a prequel to his vintage. domestic existence includes the occasions in Peter's existence instantly previous his stumble upon with Jerry at the park bench and is every piece as strong because the unique. We meet Ann, Peter's spouse, and notice the dialog that forced Peter to head for that fateful stroll within the park.
For the 1st time amassed in a single quantity, Edward Albee's At domestic on the Zoo is a needs to for any theatre lover.

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Download Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Marion Schmid, Herbert Gehr, Juliane Lorenz PDF

By Marion Schmid, Herbert Gehr, Juliane Lorenz

(Applause Books). Rainer Werner Fassbiner left at the back of a literary and cinematic legacy which holds a special position within the historical past of eu movie and within the tradition of the 20th century. It developed because the expression of an period, among 1966 and 1982, in a rustic which used to be then one other Germany and which not exists.

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