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.
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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