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  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble

    by Fiona Ritchie, Peter Holland, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the late-18th and early-19th centuries. Through their powerful acting and meticulous conceptualisation of Shakespeare's characters and their worlds, they created iconic interpretations of Shakespeare's major roles that live on in our theatrical and cultural memory. This book examines the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

    by Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie, Máire MacNeill, Chelsea Phillips, Nevena Martinovic, Michael Burden, Fiona Ritchie, Seth Wilson, Elaine McGirr0, Amanda Weldy Boyd1, Danielle Bobker2 ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Wayfaring Strangers

    The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

    by Fiona Ritchie, Doug Orr, Darcy Orr ...
    From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • "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

    $61.49 CAD

  • Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

    by Fiona Ritchie ...
    Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Fiona Ritchie, Peter Sabor ...
    In the eighteenth century, Shakespeare became indisputably the most popular English dramatist. Published editions, dramatic performances and all kinds of adaptations of his works proliferated and his influence on authors and genres was extensive. By the second half of the century Shakespeare's status had been fully established, and since that time he has remained central to English culture. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows?An expert ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

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  • Love and Madness

    The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

    by Martin Levy ...
    In eighteenth-century England the aristocracy dominated the imagination, their exploits -- and misdeeds -- discussed, debated, and gossiped about in the salons and parlors of London. Now author Martin Levy vividly re-creates one of the most shocking and scandalous events of the period, in a riveting true tale of passion, obsession, murder, and courtroom drama.On a spring evening in the year 1779, ... Read more

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  • The Gentry

    Stories of the English

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of history.We may well be ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, but for generations England was a country dominated ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    by Margaret Crosland ...
    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... Read more

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  • Cavalier

    A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses

    by Miller House Limited ...
    From the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in England, a vivid and captivating portrait of a seventeenth-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War.William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of ... Read more

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