The Cambridge Companion To English Melodrama
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The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
Author | : Carolyn Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107095939 |
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A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004-02-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521795362 |
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This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Author | : David Glover,Scott McCracken |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521513371 |
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An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
Author | : Brenda Murphy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999-06-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521576806 |
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This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
Melodrama Unbound
Author | : Christine Gledhill,Linda Williams |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 761 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780231543194 |
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For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Author | : Steven Meyer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107079724 |
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This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto
Author | : Terrell Carver,James Farr |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107037007 |
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Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
Author | : Ton Hoenselaars |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107494336 |
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While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.