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  • The Incomparable Hester Santlow

    A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage

    by Moira Goff ...
    Series series Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance
    In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, through her dancing roles in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • "The Stage's Glory"

    John Rich (1692–1761)

    by Berta Joncus, Jeremy Barlow, Terry Jenkins, Robert D. Hume, Judith Milhous, David Hunter, Matthew J. Kinservik, Moira Goff, Linda J. Tomko0, Jennifer Thorp1, Donald Burrows2, Olive Baldwin3, Thelma Wilson4, Vanessa L. Rogers5, Fiona Ritchie6, Felicity Nussbaum7, Ana Martínez8, Al Coppola9, Robin Simon0, Marcus Risdell1 ...
    John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich’s multifaceted career, appreciation of which has suffered from his performing identity as Lun, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Prince's Mistress, Perdita

    A Life of Mary Robinson

    by Hester Davenport ...
    Mary Robinson, nicknamed 'Perdita' by the Prince of Wales after her role on the London stage, was a woman in whom showmanship and reckless behaviour contrasted with romantic sensibility and radical thinking. Born in Bristol in 1758, she moved to London with her family at a young age and was trained by Garrick for the theatre. After a royal command performance as Perdita in 'The Winter's Tale', she ... Read more

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  • The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel

    by Montague Summers ...
    “The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel” is a 1938 treatise by Montague Summers on the subject of the Gothic novel, looking at its origins, evolution, and role in contemporary literature. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote ... Read more

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  • Perdita

    The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson

    by Paula Byrne ...
    This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.”One of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson led a life that was marked ... Read more

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  • The Lodger Shakespeare

    His Life on Silver Street

    by Charles Nicholl ...
    In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Oscar Wilde: The Complete Works (A to Z Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works. For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume. At the end of each text there are links bringing you back ... Read more

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  • Samuel Johnson

    A Life

    by David Nokes ...
    A modern biography of Samuel Johnson that will serve as the definitive work on the legendary British man of lettersIn this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, David Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work. This is the story of how ... Read more

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  • Fanny Burney

    Her Life

    by Kate Chisholm ...
    Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick ... Read more

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  • Journals and Letters

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    Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she ... Read more

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  • Queen Anne

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    As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography ... Read more

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