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The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 5, Eighteenth-Century Britain

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting The Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain  Arthur Humphreys[rtoc] Preliminaries Augustan ‘Order’ Energy and liberty The ideology of consensus: politics The ideology of consensus: religion Good nature and good taste: virtue and the virtuoso The social arts Patrons and public ‘The grand affair of business’ London Ireland and Scotland Provincial …

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The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 4, Seventeenth-Century Britain

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting The Seventeenth Century  Joseph Rykwert[rtoc] The Tudor inheritance Defences and navigation Renaissance Universities and the new learning The arts in Britain between Elizabeth and James Kings, Church and Parliament The King and parliament The King and the Church Britain and Europe Senates, academies and the promise of harmony …

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The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 3, Sixteenth-Century Britain

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting Renaissance and Reformation  Dominic Baker-Smith[rtoc] The tradition of rhetoric The domestication of humanism New directions in education Courts and courtiers Patronage and the arts Thomas Cromwell and reform Reformation and the arts Protestant humanism The image of Elizabeth The native Renaissance Wales and the preservation of the language …

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The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 2, Medieval Britain

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting The Middle Ages  Derek Pearsall[rtoc] Royal and aristocratic patronage The Church Commercial developments The provinces[/rtoc] Part II: Studies in the Individual Arts Architecture  Nicola Coldstream[rtoc] Salvation and pilgrimage: shrine, tomb and chantry The Cathedrals of Durham and Wells Rievalux: a Cistercian monastery The art of the carpenter: Westminster …

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Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century

Old Traditions and New Beginnings[rtoc] ‘Our’ Shakespeare, or: the bard in the rucksack A more refined appropriation Traditional production styles: Shakespeare on the stage of the Stadttheater New beginnings Appia and Craig Max Reinhardt [/rtoc] Shakespeare Theatre in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933)[rtoc] The political background Theatres in troubled times: hard-pressed and triumphant The artistic background …

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Touched With Fire

To the reader Writing essays on poetry for examinations Knowledge of the text Answering the question Response to the text Examples of Essays Written for Examinations What an examiner’s mark scheme looks like Some comments on the examination essays Further points on presentation Building and Annotating an Anthology How long should the poems be? Finding …

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The Ant and the Peacock

Foreword   John Maynard Smith Preface Part 1: Darwinism, Its Rivals and Its Renegades[rtoc] Walking archives A world without Darwin: 1859 Rivals and follies: 1859 and beyond Goodbye to all that Darwinism old and new Anticipations of things past Organism to gene Structures to strategists Complexities and diversities Demarcations of design The scrapheap of chance …

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Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm

The Scotch Song Comes to London: Purcell – Geminiani – J. C. Bach A Myth Captivates Western Europe: Ossian – Percy – Herder – Goethe – Napoleon George Thomson’s Original Scottish Airs: Haydn – Pleyel – Beethoven – Weber Sir Walter Scott Abroad: Schubert – Rossini – Donizetti – Boieldieu – Berlioz – Bizet Scotland as a Reality: Mendelssohn – …

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The Cambridge Companion to the Organ

Preface Part I: The instrument Origins and development of the organ   Nicholas Thistlethwaite Organ construction   Stephen Bicknell The physics of the organ   John Mainstone Temperament and pitch   Christopher Kent The organ case   Stephen Bicknell Organ building today   Stephen Bicknell Part II: The player The fundamentals of organ playing   Kimberley Marshall A survey of historical performance …

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Romeo and Juliet

List of characters Romeo and Juliet The story of Romeo and Juliet The oppositions of Romeo and Juliet Oppositions of time Characters – who’s who in Romeo and Juliet Why did Romeo and Juliet die? The language of Romeo and Juliet Putting on the play William Shakespeare

Othello: A contextual history

Jacobean Contexts 1 – Global discourse: Venetians and Turks 2 – Military discourse: knights and mercenaries 3 – Racial discourse: black and white 4 – Marital discourse: husbands and wives Representations 5 – Othello in Restoration England 6 – Amateur versus professional: the Delaval Othello 7 – William Charles Macready and the domestic Othello 8 – Salvini, Irving, and …

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Looking At Shakespeare

Preface Shakespeare and the visual Visual criticism Scenography and performance Visual records of performance Pictorialism Elizabethanism The scenographic revolution Craig and the New Stagecraft Reinhardt and his designers Post-Impressionism: Granville Barker and Wilkinson Styles of politics Expressionism: Jessner and Pirchan Constructivism and the unit set Synthesis in central Europe Birmingham and CambridVictorian picturesge The stuffed …

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Shakespeare In Production: Hamlet

List of illustrations Series editors’ preface List of productions Introduction List of characters Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Bibliography

Peter Stein: Germany’s leading theatre director

Exploring styles The Brechtian approach to the classics Theatre structures old and new the move to the Schaubühne, Berlin Theatre of revolution The myth of bourgeois individualism From bourgeois past to bourgeois present Antikenprojekt Confrontation with Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Memory Conclusion – Stein the explorer and the Schaubühne as model Theatre productions of Peter Stein

John Barrymore: Shakespearean Actor

Part One: Setting the Stage Prologue: Legacies The Education of an Actor, 1882-1919 Part Two: The Productions Richard III, 1920 Hamlet, 1922-1924 The London Hamlet, 1925 Part Three: Aftermath Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1925-1942 Epilogue Appendix The Casts The Texts