Apr 5, 2016
Although Samuel Foote and Ira Aldridge may seem an improbable pairing, both have featured in recent plays on the London stage. Foote, an eighteenth-century actor and playwright, is portrayed in Mr Foote’s Other Leg, played by Simon Russell Beale, while Ira...
Nov 8, 2012
Pickering and Chatto have published the book, Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence, a collection of essays that explores the influence of the actress as well as the cultural significance of her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966),...
Aug 14, 2012
British History in the Long-eighteenth Century ‘Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power’: Politics and Performance in 1820Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds)21 March 2012 When historians talk about 1820 it is often to discuss the attempts by the new...
Oct 11, 2011
British History in the Long 18th Century30 March 2011Sarah Lloyd (Hertfordshire)Ephemeral Lives: On writing a ticket-centred history of 18th-century BritainTickets: lottery tickets, theatre tickets, turnpike tickets, admission tickets and so forth. In the eighteenth...
May 13, 2011
A surprising and useful addition to online research for Anglo-French relations is the Representing France and the French in Early English Modern Drama database. The unusual resource covers the English view of the French in some 200 plays of the early modern period....
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