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Thomas Shadwell\u27s The Lancashire-witches, and Tegue o Divelly the Irish-priest : a critical old-spelling edition
Get PDFThough today Thomas Shadwell\u27s popularity, or notoriety, is often due to Dryden\u27s attacks, he was a successful Restoration playwright with a keen sense, as Etherege wrote, of the follies in fashion. The Lancashire-Witches, And Tegue o Divelly The Irish-Priest (1681/1682) was immediately controversial. An anti-Catholic play riding on the heels of the Popish Plot, it introduced a despicable Irish Catholic priest but also presented Smerk, an Anglican curate lacking moral values and greatly fearing witches, an account of whom is taken from the actual Lancashire witch trials of 1612. When the play was first published, having had much of Smerk\u27s dialogue censored for the stage, Shadwell returned those lines to the page and addressed the political censorship. According to modem bibliographical standards, this new edition is based on Quarto 1 as the copy text, retaining the author\u27s old spellings and rhetorical punctuation. Variations from Q1 through Q4 are listed at the end of the work, along with endnotes on word usage, political and literary allusions, etc. For the first time, Shadwell\u27s own exhaustive notes on witchcraft are translated from the Latin and Greek, with exact sources cited. An introduction addresses the author\u27s life, performance history of the play, the author\u27s sources, a critical analysis, and provides an extensive section on the text itself
The Rise and Fall of the New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, 1767-1859: Archival Documents and Performance History
Get PDFExcerpt: In 1859, the Edinburgh house of Wood and Company published a Sketch of the History of the Edinburgh Th eatre-Royal in honor of its fi nal performance and closing, its author lamenting that “Th is House, which has been a scene of amusement to the citizens of Edinburgh for as long as most of them have lived, has at length come to the termination of its own existence” (3)
Joanna Baillie and the Anxiety of Shakespeare\u27s Influence
No full textJoanna Baillie, a drama critic as well as a dramatist, began during the last decade of the eighteenth century to develop her own theory of tragedy and comedy, based on human emotions, the elemental instincts that prompted Shakespeare\u27s characters to action over two hundred years before. Baillie could not escape Shakespeare\u27s early influence; even if she had tried, critics and colleagues regularly reminded her of her debt. While Baillie admitted her poetical debt to Ossian and to Robert Burns, her Romantic naturalness was indeed fresh and original. Her dramatic writing, however, followed many of the themes of Shakespeare — love, hate, revenge, jealousy, ambition — and she defended and defined her focus on such passions in her Introductory Discourse to A Series of Plays, whereas Shakespeare was tacit about his scheme if, in fact, he had one
Performance Review of The Busy Body, by Susanna Centlivre
Get PDFReview of Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body: A Comedy, directed by John Sipes, adapted by Misty Anderson and John Sipes, Clarence Brown Theatre at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 22-March 12, 2017
Joanna Baillie
No full textBook Summary: Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary er
Literary Activism: James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, and the Plight of Britain’s Chimney Sweeps
No full textExcerpt: On 6 February 1824, Joanna Baillie Notified Her Friend Walter Scott that Scottish poet James Montgomery, then living in Sherrield, England, had written to ask her for a poem on the plight on chimney sweeps, also known as climbing boys
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