Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory, Seal Lizzie
Автор: Reynolds Название: Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle ISBN: 0521182395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521182393 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Employing previously unexamined archival material, this book reconstructs five events staged in Ireland between 1907 and 1926, including the riotous premiere of The Playboy of the Western World. Reynolds provides attentive readings of plays familiar to the history of Irish theatre as well as less familiar Irish and international plays.
Автор: Coopey, Richard; Lyth, Peter Название: Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century ISBN: 0199226008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199226009 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16236.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, this overview confronts the traditional literature`s conclusions and simplistic explanations.
Автор: Stokes Название: The French Actress and her English Audience ISBN: 0521292611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521292610 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this detailed book, John Stokes explores the reception of the French actress by the English audiences. Sarah Bernhardt and Edwige Feuillere are among the many actresses invoked; prominent English spectators include Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The result is a vivid juxtaposition of theatre history and cultural studies.
Автор: Sterenberg Matthew Название: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 1137354968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137354969 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
Описание: A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
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