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9780511897740
Content:
Allardyce Nicoll's History of English Drama, 1660–1900 was an immense scholarly achievement and the work of one man. Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'. The History is reissued in seven paperback volumes, available separately and as a set. In volumes 1–5 Nicoll describes the conditions of the stage, actors and managers as well as dramatic genres. The sixth and seventh volumes offer a comprehensive list of all the plays known to have been produced or printed in England between 1660 and 1930, with their authors and alternative titles; it has thus independent value as well as providing an index to the earlier volumes
Content:
Chapter one: The theatre. Introductory ; The audience ; The theatre ; The actors and actresses -- Chapter two: Tragedy. Introductory: The tendencies of the age ; Elizabethan, Restoration and foreign models ; Heroic dramas: 1700-1750 ; Pseudo-classic tragedies ; Augustan tragedies ; Domestic tragedies, and plays of private woe -- Chapter three: Comedy. Types of Augustan comedy ; Elizabethan, Restoration and foreign models ; Comedies of manners ; Comedies of intrigue ; Comedies of humours ; Comedies of sensibility ; Farces -- Chapter four: Miscellaneous forms of drama. Introductory ; Tragi-comedies and pastorals ; Italian and English operas ; Ballad-operas ; Pantomimes ; Masques and political plays ; Burlesques and rehearsals -- Appendix A. The theatres: 1700-1750 -- Appendix B. Select documents illustrating the history of the stage -- Appendix C. Hand-list of plays: 1700-1750: i. English plays and operas ; ii. Italian operas, oratorios and serenatas ; iii. Repertoire of the French and Italian comedians -- Supplementary to Chapter one -- Supplementary to Chapter two -- Supplementary to Chapter three -- Supplementary to Chapter four -- Supplementary to Appendix A -- Supplementary to Appendix C
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521058285
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521109291
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521058285
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511897740
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