Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
J. T. Grein: the Story of a Pioneer, 1862-1935
Jacob Thomas "Jack" Grein was a British impresario and drama critic who helped establish the modern theatre in London. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Grein moved to London in 1885 and was naturalized in 1895. His greatest achievement was founding the Independent Theatre Society in 1891. The Independent was the first of several companies run on a private, subscription basis to bypass the Lord Chamberlain's prohibition of what he deemed offensive material. Their first production was Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" in 1891, and George Bernard Shaw's first play "Widowers' Houses" the next year. Grein married the actress and playwright Alice Augusta Greeven in 1904. The Independent Theatre ceased operations in 1897. Grein was involved with similar ventures, such as the Stage Society (1899 onwards), the London German Theatre (1901-7), the French Players (1917), and the People's Theatre (1923). This volume presents the man and his struggle to make theatre in London more sophisticated, modern, and cosmopolitan.
W. Somerset Maugham
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twnetieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
J. T. Grein: the Story of a Pioneer, 1862-1935
Jacob Thomas "Jack" Grein was a British impresario and drama critic who helped establish the modern theatre in London. Born and raised in Amsterdam, Grein moved to London in 1885 and was naturalized in 1895. His greatest achievement was founding the Independent Theatre Society in 1891. The Independent was the first of several companies run on a private, subscription basis to bypass the Lord Chamberlain's prohibition of what he deemed offensive material. Their first production was Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" in 1891, and George Bernard Shaw's first play "Widowers' Houses" the next year. Grein married the actress and playwright Alice Augusta Greeven in 1904. The Independent Theatre ceased operations in 1897. Grein was involved with similar ventures, such as the Stage Society (1899 onwards), the London German Theatre (1901-7), the French Players (1917), and the People's Theatre (1923). This volume presents the man and his struggle to make theatre in London more sophisticated, modern, and cosmopolitan.
Salome's Modernity
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
The Outlook
None
The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901
Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.
The Athenaeum
None
