David Garrick And The Mediation Of Celebrity
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David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author | : Leslie Ritchie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781108475877 |
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Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
Celebrity Performance Reception
Author | : David Worrall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107435971 |
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By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censor's manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, unfamiliar play texts and rare printed sources. By examining prompters' records, box office receipts and benefit night takings, the study questions the status of David Garrick, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean, and recovers the neglected actress, Elizabeth Younge, and her importance to Edmund Burke.
Criticism Performance and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : James Harriman-Smith |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-03-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781108835497 |
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Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.
Kardashian Kulture
Author | : Ellis Cashmore |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2019-08-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781787439641 |
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Using the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.
David Garrick a Critical Biography
Author | : George Winchester Stone,George Morrow Kahrl |
Publsiher | : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : UOM:49015000876483 |
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The life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19 February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779 was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death “eclipsed the gaiety of nations.” For twenty-nine years (1747–1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140 actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
English Theatrical Anecdotes 1660 1800
Author | : Heather Ladd,Leslie Ritchie |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2022-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781644532621 |
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The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.
Shakespeare Seen
Author | : Stuart Sillars |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107193246 |
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Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.
Celebrity
Author | : Chris Rojek |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2004-11-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781861895578 |
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In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point. But how have people like Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bill Clinton or Princess Diana impressed themselves so powerfully on the public mind? Do they have unique qualities, or have their images been constructed by the media? And what of the dark side of celebrity – why is the hunger to be in the public eye so great that people are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it, as numerous mass murderers and serial killers have done. Chris Rojek brings together celebrated figures from the arts, sports, politics and other public spheres, from O.J. Simpson and Marilyn Monroe to Hitler and David Bowie, and touches on many movements and fads, including punk, rock-and-roll and fashion. Rojek analyzes the difference between ascribed celebrity, which derives from bloodline, and achieved celebrity, which follows on from personal achievement - the difference between Princess Margaret and, say, Woody Allen. He also shows how there is no parallel in history to today's ubiquitous "living" form of celebrity, powered by newspapers, PR departments, magazines and electronic mass media.