Music, Words and Voice
Introduction Martin Clayton Words and music Song, text and voice Song performance and society Song and ritual Words, music and narrative
Manchester University Press
Religion in Victorian Britain: V – Culture and Empire
Introduction: Victorian Religion in Context John Wolffe Part I: Essays ‘Male and Female He Created them’: Men, Women and the Question of Gender F. Knight ‘Praise to the Holiest in the Height’: Hymns and Church Music J. Wolffe Foreign Missions and Missionaries in Victorian Britain T. Thomas Rethinking the Missionary Position: Bishop Colenso of Natal …
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Religion in Victorian Britain: II – Controversies
Introduction: From Centre to Periphery, Victorian Religious Controversies in Perspective Gerald Parsons Class, Religion and Society The Word and the World: Evangelism in the Victorian City David Englander Social Control to Social Gospel: Victorian Christian Social Attitudes Gerald Parsons A Question of Meaning: Religion and Working-Class Life Gerald Parsons Church, State and Society Anglicanism, Parliament …
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Religion in Victorian Britain: I – Traditions
Introduction: Victorian Religion, Paradox and Variety Gerald Parsons Reform, Revival and Realignment: The Experience of Victorian Anglicanism Gerald Parsons From Dissenters to Free Churchmen: The Transitions of Victorian Nonconformity Gerald Parsons Victorian Britain’s Other Establishment: The Transformations of Scottish Presbyterianism Gerald Parsons Victorian Roman Catholicism: Emancipation, Expansion and Achievement Gerald Parsons The Clerical Renaissance in …
The Garrick Stage: Theatres and Audience in the Eighteenth Century
Foreword Sybil Rosenfeld The age of David Garrick: Introduction The idea of the mid-eighteenth century theatre The playhouses Mixing with the audience Lights and scenes Costumes old and new
Shakespeare in Performance: Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – The Elizabethan Version Early Revivals – David Garrick versus Charlotte Cushman Recovery, 1935 – John Gielgud Paraphrase, 1947 – Peter Brook Translation, 1960-1968 – Franco Zeffirelli
Shakespeare in Performance: Macbeth
The protagonists and the production: 1606-1623 Davenant and Betterton David Garrick Sarah Siddons The protagonists: chiasmus interpretation on stage Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh directed by Glen Byam Shaw The protagonists: chiasmus interpretations on television Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson directed by George Shaefer Eric Porter and Janet Suzman directed by John Corrie Nicol Williamson …
Shakespeare in Performance: King John
Introduction King John in the 19th century Mid-20th century productions Royal Shakespeare Company productions of the 1970s The BBC TV production, 1984 Deborah Warner’s production: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1988 and London, 1989