Glorious Causes explores the politics of theatricality and the theatricality of politics in late Georgian Britain, at a time when the British nation can be described as a stage for reform. Political rhetoric during this period was characterized by a rich vocabulary, drawing on theatrical language and forms, from melodrama and tragedy, to comedy and burlesque. Most importantly, activity in the theaters themselves, often dismissed until recently as vulgar or sentimental, was highly charged with political dynamic and controversy, central to the drama of reform.

Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789-1833

Literature & Fiction

Swindells, Julia

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

This book discusses what has been left out of Left thought, what difficulties the Left has had in dealing with the arguments of women, and, using Raymond Williams's political critique, what alternative lines of development can be opened up. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of cultural studies, history, politics and women's studies.

What's Left: Women in Culture and the Labour Movement

Politics & Social Sciences

JARDINE, Lisa

Social Sciences

Routledge

What's Left?: Women in Culture and the Labour Movement

Victorian Writing and Working Women: The Other Side of Silence

Reference

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Victorian Writing and Working Women (Feminist Perspectives)

What's Left? (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement)

First published in 1990. What had been left out of Left thought? What had allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address itself exclusively to labouring men, despite insistent demands for inclusion from others - notably women - who recognised themselves as belonging to the Left? What's Left?, a feminist challenge to the male-dominated ideology of the Labour Party, took shape under the pressure of two crucial events: the third successive election defeat of Labour by the Conservative Party, and the death of Raymond Williams. Swindells and Jardine analyse the difficulties the Left had including women in its account of class, to clarify general problems in British Left thought. They conclude that there was a serious and widely-perceived discrepancy between the Labour Party's model of working-class consciousness and the experiences of the contemporary workforce as a whole. An important exploration of the intellectual history of the Labour Movement, What's Left? looks critically at the Left from within the Left. It will be fascinating reading for students of cultural studies, history, politics and women's studies.

History

Europe

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare. This title contains extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, and obituaries that present a contemporary account of their acting achievements and personal lives.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 1: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Marshall, Gail

Foulkes, Richard

Sawyer, Robert

Kishi, Tetsuo

Taylor, David Francis

Arts & Literature

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 2: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part III, Volume 3: Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps and William Charles Macready by their Contemporaries

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