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What Blest Genius?
The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2019
275 kr
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In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-Upon-Avon to celebrate the legacy of the town’s most famous son. For three days, attendees paraded through garlanded streets, listened to songs and oratorios, and enjoyed masked balls. It was a unique cultural moment—a coronation …
Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age
E-bok, 2021
434 kr
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Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the …
Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age
E-bok, 2021
434 kr
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Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the …
Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age
Häftad, 2024
395 kr
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Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the …
Cultural History of Comedy
Volumes 1-6
Av Andrew McConnell Stott, Eric Weitz
2024
2655 kr
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How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed?In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each …
Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi
Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplin's tramp or …
Summer in the Shadow of Byron
Häftad, 2015
176 kr
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Villa Diodati. 1816.In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary …
