Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance: Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance
About the Book Series
Focusing on performance culture during the long eighteenth century, this series offers studies of individuals, institutions, forms and trends in all types of cultural performance including theatre, opera, dance, musical performance, and diverse popular entertainments. It is a forum for interdisciplinary work, drawing the debates of historians, musicologists, literary scholars, dance, theatre and opera scholars into a creative symbiosis. The editors welcome studies which are concerned with British, European, and early American cultural history. Studies that concern themselves with theoretical questions surrounding acts of performance during this period are also welcome.
The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675�1725
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Lowerre
October 14, 2024
Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music, drama, and dance productions that ...
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia
1st Edition
By Lurana Donnels O'Malley
June 10, 2019
The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and...
The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage
1st Edition
By Moira Goff
January 03, 2019
In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a...
Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695–1705
1st Edition
By Kathryn Lowerre
November 28, 2016
From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from...
Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance
1st Edition
By Leslie Ritchie
November 25, 2016
Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music ...