Eighteenth-Century Brechtians (EPUB) von Joel Schechter

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians
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Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole
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ISBN-13:
9780859892155
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Joel Schechter
Serie:
Exeter Performance Studies ISSN
eBook Format:
EPUB
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre.  It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory and practice. 15 b&w illustrations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Cast of Brechtians in Order of Appearance

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Peter Thomson

Introduction

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians

Cross-Dressing Soldiers and Anti-Militarist Rakes

Polly Peachum and the New Naiveté

Pirates and Polly: A Lost Messingkauf Dialogue

The Duchess of Queensberry Becomes Polly Peachum

Macheath Our Contemporary

Swift in Hollywood: Another Messingkauf Dialogue

Swift’s Polite Conversation with Falstaff

Henry Fielding, Brechtian Before Brecht

Fielding’s London Merchant, and Lillo’s

Literarization of Fielding’s Plays

Tom Thumb Jones, Child Actress

A World on Fire

Fielding’s Cibber Letters: Counterfeit Wit, Scurrility and Cartels

Bertolt Brecht Writes The Beggar’s Opera, Fielding Rewrites Polly

Stage Mutineers

Charlotte Charke’s Tit for Tat; or Comedy and Tragedy at War: A Lost Play Recovered?

Mrs Charke Escapes Hanging

Garrick and Swift’s School for Scandal—With a Digression on Yoko Ono

Brecht Praises Garrick’s Hamlet

A Portrait of the Artists as Beggar’s Opera Disciples—Including David Garrick, Epic Actor

Walpole in America

The Future of Eighteenth-Century Brechtiana: Polly Exonerated

Conclusion: The Future Promise of an Earlier Age

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: A Timetable of Events

Bibliography

Index


 

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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians von Joel Schechter - mit der ISBN: 9780859892155

HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Social History; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; Augustan theatre; Bertolt Brecht; Brechtians; Charlotte Charke; David Garrick; Fielding’s forgery; George Farquhar; Georgian theatre; Henry Fielding; John Gay; Little Haymarket theatre; Macheath and Polly Peachum; The Beggar’s Opera; The Recruiting Officer; The Threepenny Opera; actor mutiny of 1733; controversial plays; eighteenth-century; performance studies; political the, Online-Buchhandlung


 

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