Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Foulkes, Richard

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

Queen Victoria was both Supreme Head of the Church of England and an ardent playgoer. At the beginning of her reign considerable antagonism existed between the Church and the theater, but by the end the reconciliation was almost complete. This book explores the process in terms of trends in religious thought (the Oxford Movement and Christian-Socialism), other contemporary developments such as urbanization, education and women's emancipation and the principal protagonists: clergymen, dramatists, actors and actresses.

Church and Stage in Victorian England

Humor & Entertainment

Cambridge University Press

<p>Queen Victoria was both Supreme Head of the Church of England and an ardent playgoer. At the beginning of her reign considerable antagonism existed between the Church and the theater, but by the end the reconciliation was almost complete. This book explores the process in terms of trends in religious thought (the Oxford Movement and Christian-Socialism), other contemporary developments such as urbanization, education and women's emancipation and the principal protagonists: clergymen, dramatists, actors and actresses.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, influential contributions to the debate on child actors, and the friendship of leading players, especially Ellen Terry. As well as being a key to his complex and enigmatic personality, Carroll's interest in the theatre provides a vivid account of a remarkable era on the stage that encompassed Charles Kean's Shakespeare revivals, the comic genius of Frederick Robson, the heyday of pantomime, Gilbert and Sullivan, opera bouffe, the Terry sisters, Henry Irving, and favourite playwrights Tom Taylor, H. A. Jones, and J. M. Barrie. With attention to the complex motives that compelled Carroll to attend stage performances, Foulkes examines the incomparable record of over forty years as a playgoer that Carroll left for posterity.

Theatre (Teach Yourself)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Teach Yourself

Very good copy, Bright clean text, light rubbing to DJ only.

The Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864

Society for Theatre Research

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Marshall, Gail

Swindells, Julia

Sawyer, Robert

Kishi, Tetsuo

Taylor, David Francis

Arts & Literature

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 3: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

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