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Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane.Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while t

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"This is the first biography of Thomas Harris. Until now, little has been known about his life. He was most visible as the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades, one of only two venues in London allowed by law to perform spoken drama. But this career was only one of many: he became the confidant of George III, a philanthropist, sexual suspect, and a brothel owner in the underworld of Covent Garden. While deeply involved in Pitt the Younger's government, Harris worked as a 'spin doctor' to control the release of government news. As novelists created elaborate storylines with fictional intriguers lurking in the shadows, Harris was the real thing. In this lively recreation of life in Georgian London - social, political, sexual, theatrical - his career intersects many of the hidden worlds of the eighteenth century. This narrative of detection brings together a hoard of newly discovered manuscripts to construct his many lives." -- Publisher.

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Vorliegende Studie tritt dem verbreiteten Urteil entgegen, August Wilhelm Iffland hätte das Berliner Nationaltheater von 1796 bis 1814 im Gegensatz zu Goethes Weimarer Bühne nur unter ökonomischem Aspekt geführt. Sie untersucht die komplexen Prozesse ökonomischer und ästhetischer Wertebildung im Theater und seinem Umfeld. Analysiert werden Repertoiregestaltung, Theaterkritiken, Theaterbilder und Bühnenstücke. Die Studie wird von einem dokumentarischen Anhang, bestehend aus einem Bild- und einem Textteil, ergänzt. Der Bildteil enthält Quellen, die Ifflands Berliner Zeit illustrieren. Der Textteil enthält u. a. Briefe von und an Iffland, Quittungen und Rechnungen der Autoren und Schauspieler, Gehaltslisten und Verträge. Erstmals wird ein monographischer Text des Berliner Lustspieldichters Julius von Voß über Iffland abgedruckt. Die Texte dienen zur Erläuterung der Monografie und sollen darüber hinaus der Forschung gleichzeitig neues Quellenmaterial liefern.

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Drawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.A. Sokalski examines the aims, inventions, and methods of the pictorial style that defined MacKaye's art. Sokalski shows how MacKaye's famous Madison Square Theatre, which featured a double stage reminiscent of an elevator, created whirling pictorial illusions for fashionable New York. He argues that MacKaye's infamous failure, the colossal Spectatorium theatre for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, was the most complete realization of this illusionary aesthetic. Sokalski also explores MacKaye's influence on Buffalo Bill Cody and how civil war cycloramas expanded his concept of pictorial space.

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