George Farquhar
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-14747-8 (ISBN)
Born in Londonderry, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer.
David Roberts is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Arts and Media at Birmingham City University, UK. Recent books include Thomas Betterton (2010), The Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor (2012), Restoration Plays and Players (2014), and Games for English Literature (2016), co-authored with Izabela Hopkins. Articles in major journals including Shakespeare Quarterly, ELH, New Theatre Quarterly, and The Times Literary Supplement. My biography of Betterton was shortlisted for the American Library Association Theatre Book Prize and longlisted for the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Brief Life Forwards
1. A Life Reversed
2. 1709: A Widow’s Pension
3. 1707: Death-Bed Comedy
4. 1706: Military Comedy
5. 1704: In the Army
6. 1701: Moral George
7. 1700: The Irishman Abroad
8. 1698: Narratives of Arrival
9. 1696: Dear Bob
10. 1690: Farquhar Family History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance |
Zusatzinfo | 1 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 340 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-14747-8 / 1350147478 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-14747-8 / 9781350147478 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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