Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

Volume II: Theatre and Drama Criticism
Redaktion: Newey, Katherine

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This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 2 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.

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• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000438017
• Artikelnr.: 62603439

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Katherine Newey, Professor of English, University of Exeter, UK

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Volume II: Theatre and Drama Criticism Table of Contents. Part 1: Theatrical Debates Headnote 1. 1 Melodrama and the Shock of the New 1. 'Theatre'
Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
November 1802
375-376. 2. 'The Theatres'
The Satirist; or Censor of the Times
19 February 1832
62. 3. 'Monster Melo-Drame'
The Satirist; or Monthly Meteor
1 January
1808
337-341 4. D-G [George Daniels]
'Remarks' on A Tale of Mystery
from Cumberland's British Theatre
Vol. VIII (London: John Cumberland
1826). 5. 'Surrey Theatre'
The Mirror of the Stage: or
New Dramatic Censor 13 January
1823
189-190. 6. Walter Scott
extract from 'An Essay on the Drama
' originally published as Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
1819. This version from The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott
Vol VI
Chivalry
Romance
The Drama (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell
and London: Whittaker & Co.
1834)
pp. 383-395. 7. Joanna Baillie
extract from A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind [Plays on the Passions] (London: T. Cadell
1798)
pp. 12-26. 8. Henry Barton Baker
'The Old Melodrama'
Belgravia
May 1883
pp. 331-339. 1.2 The Decline of the Drama
and the National Theatre Headnote 9. Edward Lytton Bulwer
'The Drama'
From England and the English Vol II (London: Richard Bentley
1833)
pp. 332-337
339-346. 10. Extracts from the Evidence from the 1832 Select Committee Report: Committee recommendations. Evidence from John Payne Collier
Q. 279
p. 24. Evidence from Douglas Jerrold; QQ 2834 to 2852
pp. 158-9. Evidence from William Thomas Moncrieff
QQ3118-3216; pp. 175-180. 11. D. J. [Douglas Jerrold]
'The Rights of Dramatists
' Monthly Magazine
May 1832
559-565. 12. Vivian
[George Henry Lewes] 'Dreary Lane'
The Leader
21st February
1852. 13. [George Henry Lewes] 'Vivian in Tears'
The Leader
7 February
1852. 14. 'Why I Don't Write Plays'
Pall Mall Gazette
August 31
1892. 15. 'Why I Don't Write Plays'
Judy
28 September
1892
p. 152. 16. Effingham Wilson
A House for Shakespere: A Proposition for the Nation (London: H. Hurst
1848) pp. 5-7. 17. William Archer & Granville Barker
'Preface'
in A National Theatre. Scheme and Estimates (London: Duckworth
1907)
pp. xv - xxi. 18. Henry Arthur Jones
'The Future of English Drama'
The New Review
August
1893
pp. 177-181. 1.3. The Woman Question Headnote 19. 'Women as Dramatists'
All the Year Round
29 September
1894
pp. 299-301. 20. 'Women as Playwrights'
The Sketch
8 June
1898
p. 256. 21. 'Women Playwrights'
The Era
6 November
1897
p. 14. 22. Madge Kendal
The Drama. A Paper Read at the Congress for the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Birmingham
1884. (London: David Bogue)
pp. 2-6
8-13. 23. Raymond Blathwayt
Does the Theatre Make for Good? A Talk with Mr. Clement Scott
Reprinted from 'Great Thoughts' (London: A. W. Hall
1898)
pp. 3-18. 1.4. On Theatrical Criticism Headnote 24. Leigh Hunt
'Appendix' [Rules for the Theatrical Critic of a Newspaper] to Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres
(London: John Hunt
1807) pp. 17-21. 25. 'On Theatrical Criticism'
The Musical World
30 May 1839
pp. 69-73. 26. William Archer
'The Ethics of Theatrical Criticism' in About the Theatre: Essays and Studies (London
T. F. Unwin
1886.)
pp. 183-196. 27. R. M. Sillard
'Concerning Theatrical Criticism
' Westminster Review
December 1898
634-640. Part II: Theatrical Aesthetics in Practice 2.1 Pantomime Headnote 28. 'Introductory Chapter'
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
by Boz [Charles Dickens]
1838
pp. xi-xix. 29. 'Female Management'
The Spectator
8 January
1831
p. 34. 30. 'Theatres'
John Bull
29 December
1834. 31. 'Pantomimes and Christmas Pieces'
Illustrated London News
28 December
1844
408-410 32. 'Boxing Day'
The Era
28 December
1897. 33. Percy Fitzgerald
'Stage Illusion - Mechanism'
The World Behind the Scenes
(1881) pp. 1-5 34. Henry J. Byron
'Pantomimical'
The Theatre
1 January
1879
pp. 408-410. 2.2 Tragedy Headnote 35. Leigh Hunt
Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres (London: John Hunt
1808) a) 'Tragedy'
pp. 1-4 b) 'Mrs Siddons'
pp. 16-21 36. William Hazlitt
A View of the English Stage (London: Robert Stodart
1818). a) 'Preface
' pp. x-xiii b) 'Miss O'Neill's Juliet' pp. 46-50 37. Fanny Kemble's debut as Juliet a) 'Covent-Garden Theatre
' The Times
6 October 1829. b) 'Covent-Garden Theatre
' Morning Chronicle
6 October
1829. c) 'The Drama
' New Monthly Magazine
Nov 1829
pp. 476-478. 38. John Forster
'Macready as Macbeth
' The Examiner
October 4
1835
repr. in Dramatic Essays edited by William Archer and Robert W. Lowe (London: Walter Scott
1896)
pp. 1-7 39. G. H. Lewes
'Rachel'
from On Actors and the Art of Acting
(New York: Henry Holt
1881; first published 1875) pp. 31-38. 40. Charles Kean's Shakespearean revivals: a) 'The Theatrical Examiner'
The Examiner
14 February
1852. b) 'Theatrical Success and Shakspere for 100 Nights'
The Era
September 16
1855. c) 'Charles Kean and the Modern Stage'
Blackwood's
April 1868
pp. 481-484. 41. Clement Scott
From 'The Bells' to 'King Arthur' (London: John McQueen
1897). a) The Bells
pp. 3-7 b) A Story of Waterloo
pp. 363-368 2.3. Victorian Acting and Scenography Headnote 42. William Bodham Donne
'The Drama'
Essays on the Drama (London: John W. Parker & Son
1858)
pp. 120-128
153-155. 43. G. H Lewes
'On Natural Acting'
in On Actors and the Art of Acting (New York: Henry Holt
1880)
pp. 100-112. 44. Henry Irving
'Preface'
to Denis Diderot
Paradox of the Actor
translated by Walter Herries Pollock (London: Chatto & Windus
1883)
p. ix - xx. 45. William Archer
'Diderot's "Paradox of Acting"'
Theatre (1884: Mar.)
pp.117-126. 2.4 Sensation Melodramas Headnote 46. Dion Boucicault
The Corsican Brothers a) 'The Theatrical Examiner
' The Examiner
28 February
1852
p. 134. b) 'Princess's' The Athenaeum
28 February
1852
p. 259. c) 'Metropolitan Theatres
' Theatrical Journal
March 1852
p. 66. d) 'Our Little Chatter Box' Theatrical Journal
March 1852. e) Clement Scott on Henry Irving's revival of The Corsican Brothers
From 'The Bells' to 'King Arthur' (London: John McQueen
1897) p. 177-181. 47. Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (adaptation by Wilkie Collins
1871) a) 'The Woman in White at the Olympic'
The Examiner
14 October
1871
p. 1018. b) 'The Woman in White'
Pall Mall Gazette
11 October
1871. 48. Lady Audley's Secret (adaptations of the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon) a) The Musical World (Vol. 41
No. 11)
14 March
1863
p. 169. b) 'Public Amusements of the Metropolis'
New Sporting Magazine
(No. 268) April
1863
pp. 351-353. c) 'The Theatrical Examiner'
The Examiner
18 April
1863
p. 248. d) 'Amusements
' The Penny Illustrated Paper
7 March
1863
p. 155. 49. Wilson Barrett
The Sign of the Cross a) 'The "Sign of the Cross" at the Lyric
' The Sketch
January 1896
p. 547-548 b) 'Waftings from the Wings'
Fun
14 January
1896
p. 18. c) William Archer
'Daughters of Babylon'
Theatrical World
1897
pp. 23-30. 50. Paul M. Potter
Trilby (adapted from the novel by George du Maurier) a) 'Mr Tree's "Trilby" at Manchester'
Morning Post
9 September
1895. b) '"Trilby" at the Haymarket'
The Era
2 November
1895. 51. Arthur Wing Pinero
The Second Mrs Tanqueray a) 'Last Night's Theatricals'
Reynolds's Newspaper
28 May
1893. b) 'St James's Theatre'
Morning Post
29 May
1893. c) 'St James's Theatre'
The Times
29 May 1893. Section 9: The New Drama Headnote 52. Edward Aveling & Eleanor Marx
'The Woman Question: from a Socialist Point of View'
Westminster Review
January 1886
pp. 221-222. 53. W. A. Lewis Bettany
'Criticism and the Renascent Drama'
The Theatre
June 1892
pp. 277-283. 54. 'Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Theatre Libre
Pall Mall Gazette
5 June
1890. 55. 'Ibsen at the Opéra Comique'
Pall Mall Gazette
18 July 1889. 56. 'Novelty Theatre' Daily Telegraph
8 June 1889. 57. 'Novelty Theatre
' Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
15 June 1889. 58. 'The Independent Theatre
' The Times
1 May 1893. 59. A. B. W.
'The Drama
' The Speaker
6 May 1893
p. 512.