Alicia Finkel

Romantic Stages

Set and Costume Design in Victorian England

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Produktbeschreibung

This work shows how the emphasis placed on the visual elements of Victorian productions revolutionized the position that stage designers held. They emerged from anonymity, becoming recognized and highly-praised collaborators in the creative process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780786423361
• ISBN-10: 0786423366
• Artikelnr.: 22436608

Autorenporträt

Alicia Finkel has designed sets and costumes for film, television and opera. She taught stage design and costume history at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Connecticut. Currently she is a trustee at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. She lives in Leland, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
1. The First Romantics     
2. Madame Vestris, James Robinson, Planché and William Beverley:
Romanticism, Fantasy, and Spectacle     
3. Charles Kean and His Designers: A Romance with History     
4. Wilson Barrett and Edward William Godwin: Another Romantic View of
History     
5. Henry Irving: A Romantic Actor and His Set Designers     
6. Romantic Swan Song     
7. Romantic Fairies and Medieval Knights     
Appendix A: On the Painting of Fairy Scenes and Other Stage Illusions     
Appendix B: Brief Biographies     
Notes     
Select Bibliography     
Index