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English drama --- History and criticism. --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANGLAIS --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it been told in terms of the theatre of the period. To understand the play lists of a theatre, it is crucial to examine the community which that theatre serves. In the labouring-class communities of London and the provinces, the performances were adapted to suit the local audiences, whether weavers, or miners, or field workers. Examining the conditions and characteristics of representative provincial theatres from the 1790s to 1830s, Frederick Burwick argues that the meaning of a play changes with every change in the performance location. As contributing factors in that change, Burwick attends to local political and cultural circumstances as well as to theatrical activities and developments elsewhere.
Theater --- English drama --- Working class --- Théâtre --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais --- Classe ouvrière --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.
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English literature --- Drama --- anno 1990-1999 --- English drama --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANGLAIS --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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English drama --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Ireland --- In literature. --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANGLAIS --- IRLANDE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- AUTEURS IRLANDAIS
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DEMONOLOGIE --- PLAISIR --- ENFER DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PÉCHÉ DANS LA LITTERATURE --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANGLAIS --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 1500-1600 (MODERNE ET ELISABETHAIN) --- THEMES, MOTIFS
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English literature --- Princesses --- Courts and courtiers --- Drama --- Navarre (Kingdom) --- Princesses - Drama --- Courts and courtiers - Drama --- Navarre (Kingdom) - Drama --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais --- Cour et courtisans --- Shakespeare, William
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Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.
English literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- anno 1500-1599 --- English drama --- Magic in literature --- Theater --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais --- Magie --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Magic in literature.
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Comparative literature --- Drama --- Shakespeare, William --- anno 1900-1999 --- SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) ANGLAIS --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) FRANCAIS --- MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- ADAPTATIONS --- INFLUENCE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- FRANCE
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