The lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725 / edited by Kathryn Lowerre.

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Lowerre, Kathryn [editor.]

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TextSeries: Performance in the long eighteenth centuryPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages .)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781409455325
1409455327
9781472403599
1472403592
1351886525
9781351886529
1315238594
9781315238593

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725DDC classification:

792/.09421 23

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PN2596.L6 L58 2014

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part IFirst, Music: Settings of Congreve's Judgment of Paris; 1 The Singers of The Judgment of Paris; 2 Harmonia Anglicana or Why Finger Failed in 'The Prize Musick'; 3The 'Prize Musick' of 1701: A Reinvestigation of the Staging Issue; Part II Mainpiece: The Lively Arts of the London Stage; 4 Composing after the Italian Manner: The English Cantata 1700-1710; 5 Johann Pepusch, Aesthetics, and the Sister Arts.

6From Scaramouche to Harlequin: Dances 'in grotesque characters' on the London Stage7 Music, Magic, and Morality: Stage Reform and the Pastoral Mode; 8Madness 'Free from Vice': Musical Eroticism in the Pastoral World of The Fickle Shepherdess; 9 'Let all be husht': Songs in Praise of Anne Bracegirdle and Arabella Hunt; 10Burning and Stoic Men: Mad Rants and the Performance of Passionate Pain in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee, 1674 to 1678; 11Appreciating Bononcini's Astianatte (1727): An Italian Opera for the London Stage; Part IIIAfterpiece: Comedy, Farce, and Competition; 12 The Right to Write.

Or, Colley Cibber and The Drury-Lane Monster13 'Quotation is the sincerest form of ... '?: Signature Songs as Inter-Theatrical References; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.

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Or, Colley Cibber and The Drury-Lane Monster13 'Quotation is the sincerest form of ... '?: Signature Songs as Inter-Theatrical References; Bibliography; Index.

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.

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