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  1. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674418899; 9780674418882
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    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,132p.)
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    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage

  2. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781137298980; 9781137298997
    RVK Categories: HL 4519
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Wissen; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English / History and criticism; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) / Great Britain; Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Drama; Schauerroman; Englisch
    Other subjects: Stoker, Bram / 1847-1912 / Criticism and interpretation; Stoker, Bram / 1847-1912 / Knowledge / Theater; Stoker, Bram (1847-1912): Dracula
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 195 S.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: setting the scene -- Stoker, melodrama and the gothic -- Irving's tempters and Stoker's vanishing ladies: supernatural production, mesmeric influence and magical illusion -- Ellen Terry and the "bloofer lady": femininity and fallenness -- Gothic weddings and performing vampires: Geneviève Ward and The lady of the shroud -- The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion

  3. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Hochschule Kempten, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    ISBN: 9780674418899
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    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,132p.)
    Notes:

    5 schw.-w. Abb., 1 frontispiece

    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage

  4. Our recent actors, Volume 2
    being recollections critical, and, in many cases, personal, of late distinguished performers of both sexes
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Love of the theatre began at an early age for John Westland Marston (1819–90), and developed into his life's work as a playwright, critic and literary figure of the Victorian era. He fell out of fashion and into poverty in the last years of his life,... more

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    Love of the theatre began at an early age for John Westland Marston (1819–90), and developed into his life's work as a playwright, critic and literary figure of the Victorian era. He fell out of fashion and into poverty in the last years of his life, though Irving and other friends helped with a gala benefit performance of his most famous play. This two-volume work, published in 1888, is a tribute to the actors, plays and performances of his youth. Victorian dramatic works ranged through a variety of styles and genres, and Marston's recollections cover the wide area of theatrical culture in which he was involved. Volume 2 charts the growth of individual theatre companies including Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, as well as recalling great actors such as Madame Vestris and Mademoiselle Rachel. The work offers an intimate insight into the growth and development of nineteenth-century theatre

     

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139207980
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    Series: Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
    Subjects: Geschichte; Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Actors / Great Britain; Theater / England; Actresses / Great Britain
    Scope: 1 online resource (xix, 310 pages)
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    Originally published in London by Samuel Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited in 1888. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

  5. Our recent actors, Volume 1
    being recollections critical, and, in many cases, personal, of late distinguished performers of both sexes
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Love of the theatre began at an early age for John Westland Marston (1819–90), and developed into his life's work as a playwright, critic and literary figure of the Victorian era. He fell out of fashion and into poverty in the last years of his life,... more

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    Love of the theatre began at an early age for John Westland Marston (1819–90), and developed into his life's work as a playwright, critic and literary figure of the Victorian era. He fell out of fashion and into poverty in the last years of his life, though Irving and other friends helped with a gala benefit performance of his most famous play. This two-volume work, published in 1888, is a tribute to the actors, plays and performances of his youth. Victorian dramatic works ranged through a variety of styles and genres, and Marston's recollections cover the wide area of theatrical culture in which he was involved. Volume 1 includes chapters on the actors Macready, Charles and Ellen Kean and the Kemble family. Combining professional knowledge, backstage anecdotes and accounts of the emotional impact of performances upon Marston himself, the work offers an insight into the growth and development of nineteenth-century theatre

     

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139207973
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    Series: Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
    Subjects: Geschichte; Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Actors / Great Britain; Theater / England; Actresses / Great Britain
    Scope: 1 online resource (xviii, 288 pages)
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    Originally published in London by Samuel Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited in 1888. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

  6. The making of Victorian drama
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In this book Anthony Jenkins examines seven Victorian playwrights who, despite their own ideals and prejudices and the theatre's conservatism, tried to come to terms with such momentous subjects as womanliness, honour and money. The opening chapter... more

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    In this book Anthony Jenkins examines seven Victorian playwrights who, despite their own ideals and prejudices and the theatre's conservatism, tried to come to terms with such momentous subjects as womanliness, honour and money. The opening chapter briefly describes the social transformation of theatre during the century and the increasing respectability of actors and playhouses. Subsequent chapters deal with the drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, H. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. Each of these dramatists sought to create a theatre of ideas according to his own vision of art and society. The plays are examined within the social and political context of the Reform Bill, the Revolution of 1848, the Great Exhibition, royal patronage, censorship and copyright, and, above all, the 'Woman Question'. Jenkins combines politics and theatrical history with literary criticism to shed provocative light on the struggle to relate the London theatre to the realities of Victorian England

     

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    ISBN: 9780511554186
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    RVK Categories: HL 1220
    Subjects: Geschichte; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature and society / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Social problems in literature; Englisch; Drama; Theater
    Scope: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

  7. Modernists and the theatre
    the drama of W.B Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf
    Author: Moran, James
    Published: 2022; 2021
    Publisher:  Methuen Drama, London [England] ; New York [New York] ; Bloomsbury Publishing, [London, England]

    Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen (katho), Hochschulbibliothek
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    ISBN: 9781350145504
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; English drama / 20th century / History and criticism; Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Theater / Great Britain / History / 20th century; Modernism (Literature) / Great Britain; Literary studies: plays & playwrights,Theatre studies
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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