Time and the Conways by J B Priestley was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on
17th September 1994
1919: A World War has just ended. The Conway family gather to celebrate
daughter Kay's 21st birthday party. But 19 years later we see that the
future is far from the one they imagined.
Marcia Warren and Stella Gonet star in J. B. Priestley’s classic family
drama about the nature of time. Time and the Conways follows the
fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving
perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present, and future.
This BBC Radio production features a distinguished cast, including
Marcia Warren, Stella Gonet, Belinda Sinclair, Amanda Redman, and Toby
Stephens.
Mrs Conway: Marcia Warren
Madge: Stella Gonet
Kay: Belinda Sinclair
Hazel: Amanda Redman
Carol: Emma Fielding
Alan: John Duttine
Robin: Toby Stephens
Ernest Beevers: John McArdle
Joan Helford: Julia Hills
Gerald Thorton: Christopher Scott
Mr Ackroyd: Malcolm McKee
Mrs Ackroyd: Sharon Wilmott
Music composed by: Malcolm McKee.
Oboe: Jenny Philips
Directed by Sue Wilson
BBC Radio 4 FM, 17 September 1994 19.50
Poco nos da tiempo de ver en clase sobre las unidades 7 y 8. Hablaremos un poquito sobre Bernard Shaw, y
algo sobre el teatro desde los
años 50. Y poco más.
Otros temas adicionales os pondré en esta web. Lo no visto en
clase no será objeto de TEMA en
el examen, aunque podría caer alguna pregunta corta sobre estas
cuestiones.
Nuestro
siguiente autor será George Bernard Shaw. Aquí una película
sobre una obra que entra en el programa, Pygmalion:
____________________ My Fair Lady. Dir.
George Cukor. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, based on George Bernard
Shaw's Pygmalion. Cast:
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway,
Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel.
Photog. Harry Stradling. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by
Frederick Loewe, from their musical based on George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion. Music supervisor
André Previn. Scenery & prod. des.
Cecil Beaton. Prod. Jack L. Warner, Panavision. Warner Bros., 1964. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWed1BIUebqMEkQjPzTm6hGMELDHW3b0k
____, ed. Fabian Essays on Socialism.
1889.
_____. The Quintessence of Ibsenism.
Dramatic theory. 1891.
_____. Widowers' Houses.Drama.
1892.
_____.
Mrs Warren's Profession. Drama.
1893.
_____. Arms and the Man. Drama.
Prod. 1894.
_____. Theatre
reviews in The
Saturday Review. 1895-98.
Collected as
Our
Theatres in the Nineties.3
vols. 1932.
_____. The Devil's Disciple. Drama.
Prod. New York, 1897, pub. 1901.
_____. Your Never Can Tell. Drama.
Pub. 1898, 1st prod. by Grein's
Stage Society, 1899.
_____. Caesar and Cleopatra. Drama.
Pub. 1901, 1st prod. Berlin, 1906.
_____. Candida. Drama.
1895. 1898.
_____. Man and Superman. Drama.
Pub. 1903, rev. 1905, prod. 1905.
_____. John Bull's Other Island. Drama.
Prod. 1904. Pub. New York, 1907.
_____. Major Barbara. Drama.
1905.
1907.
_____. Getting Married. Drama.
Prod. 1908, pub. Berlin, 1910.
_____. Androcles and the Lion. Drama.
Pub. Berlin 1912, prod. Hamburg,
1913.
_____. Pygmalion. Drama.
Prod. Vienna, 1913; pub. Berlin, 1913.
_____. Heartbreak House. Drama.
1913-16. Prod. New York, 1919; pub. New
York, 1919.
_____. Misalliance. Drama.
1914.
_____. Back to Methuselah. Drama.
Prod. and pub. New York, 1921.
_____. St Joan. Drama.
Prod. New York, 1923, pub. 1924.
_____. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Essay.
1928.
_____. The Apple Cart: An Interlude. Drama.
Prod. Warsaw, 1929. Pub.
Berlin, 1929.
_____. Too True to Be Good. Drama.
Prod. Boston, 1932. Pub. Berlin,
1932.
_____. The Millionaress. Drama.
1936.
George Bernard Shaw, major British dramatist, b. Dublin; l. London
1876-; Failed novelist,
then journalist, art critic, book and theatre reviewer, anti-Romantic,
advocate of social realism; member of the Fabian society, activist pro
radical social and political reforms, pro-feminist, Socialist, advocate
of spelling reform; vegetarian, teetotaller. Wilful defender of
Stalinist communism and totalitarian régimes, advocated social
euthanasia of "useless" people. Married in a sexless marriage to
feminist Charlotte Payne-Townshend 1898; platonic love affairs with
several married women. World famous realist dramatist; Nobel Prize for
Literature 1925. Director of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken
English from 1934.
O'Casey, Sean. Juno and the Paycock. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Shadow of a Gunman. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Plough and the Stars. Drama. 1926.
_____. The Silver Tassie. Drama. 1928.
_____. Windfalls. 1934.
_____. Red Roses for Me. Drama. 1943.
_____. The Bishop’s Bonfire. 1955.
Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World.
Drama. 1907.
_____. Riders to the Sea. 1904.
_____. Riders to the Sea. Drama. In The Arnold Anthology of British and
Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London:
Arnold, 1997. 1205-13.*
_____. Deirdre of the Sorrows. Drama. (Based on the legendary
Irish princess).
_____. In the Shadow of the Glen.
_____. The Well of the Saints.
_____. The Tinker's Wedding. Drama. Premiere at London, 1909.
W. B. YEATS (1865-1939)
_____. The Countess Cathleen. Drama.
1892. (Based on Irish legend).
_____. Crossways. Poems. 1892. In Collected Poems 7-29.
_____. The Rose. Poems. 1893. In Collected Poems 31-57.
_____. The Land of Heart's Desire. Drama. 1894.
_____. The Wind among the Reeds. Poems. 1899.
_____. The Green Helmet and Other Poems. 1910.
_____. Deirdre. Drama. 1906.
(On the Irish legendary princess).
_____. The Wild Swans at Coole. Poems. 1919.
_____. The Tower. Poems. 1928
_____. Calvary. Drama. 1929.
_____. At the Hawk's Well. Drama.
W. B. Yeats, Anglo-Irish poet; b. Sandymount, Dublin; son
of painter J. B. Yeats; l. London 1874-83; l. Dublin / London / Sligo;
associated to Irish revival in late 19th, then Modernist poet;
supersititious believer in occultism and magic, anti-bourgeois
aristocratic ideals, in love with Maud Gonne but rejected; married a
"psychic" wife 1917; Irish Free State senator allied to interest of
Protestant landed classes, friend of Lady Gregory, lived in a tower in
her land; promoter of the Irish National Theatre; Nobel Prize for
Literature.
James Joyce. Exiles. Drama. 1st
performed 1919.
British drama, early 20th c.:
Main actors and producers: William Archer, Harvey Granville-Barker, F.
R. Beenson, William Poel, Gordon Craig, Vesta Tilley, Oswald Stoll.
Cicely Hamilton, How the Vote Was Won. 1909.
(With 'Christopher' St John)
____. Diana of Dobson's. 1908.
Harley Granville-Barker. The Voysey
Inheritance. 1905.
John Galsworthy. Strife. 1909.
_____. Justice. 1910.
Stephen Phillips. Herod. 1900.
_____. Ulysses. 1902.
_____. Paolo and Francesca.
1902.
James Barrie. The Admirable Crichton.
1902.
_____. Peter Pan. 1904.
_____. A Collier's Friday Night. Drama. c.
1909, pub. 1934.
_____. The Daughter-in-Law.
Drama. 1912.
_____. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd.
Drama. 1914, London perf. 1926.
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
_____.
The Waste Land. Poem. 1922.
_____. Sweeney Agonistes. Drama.
1932. _____. Murder in the Cathedral.
Drama. 1936. _____. The Family Reunion.
Drama. 1939.
_____. Old Possum's Book of
Practical Cats. Children's book. 1939.
_____. Four Quartets.
Poems. 1943. _____. The
Cocktail Party.Drama. 1949.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, US/British poet, critic and dramatist; b.
St Louis; Ph.D. Harvard; st. France and Germany, l. London, bank clerk
at Lloyd's; married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, expressed disgust with sex in
poetry; unhappy marriage, wife with mental problems, separated 1933;
married Vivien Eliot 1957; l. London; conservative social critic,
influential modernist poet and critic, poetic dramatist; anti-modernist
in ideas, "classicist, anglo-Catholic and monarchic"; w. as poetry ed.
for Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber; major influence on
English-speaking literary world; Order of Merit 1948; Nobel Prize for
Literature 1949; d. London.
Priestley, J. B. Dangerous Corner. Drama.
1932. (On the radio).
_____. Time and the Conways. Drama.
1937.
_____. I Have Been Here Before. Drama.
1938.
_____. When We Are Married. Comedy.
1938.
_____. Johnson Over Jordan. Drama.
1939.
_____. They Came to a City. Drama.
1943.
_____. The Linden Tree. Drama.
1947.
_____. An Inspector Calls. Drama.
1947.
Jean Anouilh. Antigone. 1946
Jean-Paul Sartre. Huis Clos.
1946.
Albert Camus. Caligula. 1948.
Tennessee Williams, The Glass
Menagerie. 1945, UK 1948.
______. A Streetcar Named Desire.
1947, UK 1949.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman.
1949.
______. The Crucible. 1952,
UK 1954.
______. A View from the Bridge.
1955, UK 1956.
Bertolt Brecht. The Causcasian Chalk
Circle.
______. Mother Courage.
______. Pauken und Trompetten.
(Berliner Ensemble 1956).
(A recent performance by the
Berliner Ensemble: Rufus Wainwright's opera on Shakespeare's Sonnets. Sonnet 29: https://youtu.be/uRglplWwZ2Q )
TERENCE RATTIGAN (1911-1977)
_____. French Without Tears. Drama.
Premiere in 1936 (ran for 1039 performances).
_____. The Winslow Boy.
Drama. 1946.
_____. The Browning Version.
Drama. 1948.
_____. The Deep Blue Sea. Drama.
1952.
_____. Separate Tables. Drama.
1954.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
(1907-2005)
_____. The Boy with a Cart.
Drama. 1939.
_____. The Firstborn. Drama.
1946.
_____. A Phoenix too Frequent.
Drama. 1946.
_____. The Lady's Not for Burning.
Drama. 1949.
_____. Venus Observed. Drama.
1950.
_____. A Sleep of Prisoners. Drama.
1951.
_____. The Dark Is Light Enough. 1954.
_____. A Yard of Sun.
1970.
_____, trans. Ring Around the Moon.
By Jean Anouilh. Preface by Peter Brook, 1950. (Trans. of L'Invitation au Château).
_____, trans. Tiger at the Gates (La Guerre de
Troie n'aura pas lieu). By Jean Giraudoux. 1955.
_____, trans. The Lark (L'Alouette).
1955.
Christopher Fry, English
dramatist, b. Bristol, d. Chichester; Quaker; friend of Robert
Gittings and T. S. Eliot.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
_____. The Mousetrap.
1952- (Over 25,000 performances)
7-8 de enero Traed el texto de
TIME AND THE CONWAYS
_____________
J.
B. PRIESTLEY (1894-1984)
Priestley, J. B. Dangerous Corner. Drama.
1932. (On the radio). _____. Time and the Conways.Drama.
1937.
_____. I Have Been Here Before. Drama.
1938.
_____. When We Are Married. Comedy.
1938.
_____. Johnson Over Jordan. Drama.
1939.
_____. They Came to a City. Drama.
1943.
_____. The Linden Tree. Drama.
1947.
_____. An Inspector Calls. Drama.
1947.
Present Laughter, by Noël
Coward, a comedy about acting:
Teatro irlandés (después de
Goldsmith, de Boucicault, de Shaw...)
SEAN O'CASEY (1880-1965)
O'Casey, Sean. Juno and the Paycock. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Shadow of a Gunman. Drama. 1924.
_____. The Plough and the Stars. Drama. 1926.
_____. The Silver Tassie. Drama. 1928.
_____. Windfalls. 1934.
_____. Red Roses for Me. Drama. 1943.
_____. The Bishop’s Bonfire. 1955.
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (1871-1909)
Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World.
Drama. 1907.
_____. Riders to the Sea. 1904.
_____. Riders to the Sea. Drama. In The Arnold Anthology of British and
Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London:
Arnold, 1997. 1205-13.*
_____. Deirdre of the Sorrows. Drama. (Based on the legendary
Irish princess).
_____. In the Shadow of the Glen.
_____. The Well of the Saints.
_____. The Tinker's Wedding. Drama. Premiere at London, 1909.
W. B. YEATS (1865-1939)
_____. The Countess Cathleen. Drama.
1892. (Based on Irish legend).
_____. Crossways. Poems. 1892. In Collected Poems 7-29.
_____. The Rose. Poems. 1893. In Collected Poems 31-57.
_____. The Land of Heart's Desire. Drama. 1894.
_____. The Wind among the Reeds. Poems. 1899.
_____. The Green Helmet and Other Poems. 1910.
_____. Deirdre. Drama. 1906.
(On the Irish legendary princess).
_____. The Wild Swans at Coole. Poems. 1919.
_____. The Tower. Poems. 1928
_____. Calvary. Drama. 1929.
_____. At the Hawk's Well. Drama.
W. B. Yeats, Anglo-Irish poet; b. Sandymount, Dublin; son
of painter J. B. Yeats; l. London 1874-83; l. Dublin / London / Sligo;
associated to Irish revival in late 19th, then Modernist poet;
supersititious believer in occultism and magic, anti-bourgeois
aristocratic ideals, in love with Maud Gonne but rejected; married a
"psychic" wife 1917; Irish Free State senator allied to interest of
Protestant landed classes, friend of Lady Gregory, lived in a tower in
her land; promoter of the Irish National Theatre; Nobel Prize for
Literature.
James Joyce. Exiles. Drama. 1st
performed 1919.
Other modernist drama:
D. H. Lawrence
_____. A Collier's Friday Night. Drama. c.
1909, pub. 1934.
_____. The Daughter-in-Law.
Drama. 1912.
_____. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd.
Drama. 1914, London perf. 1926.
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
_____.
The Waste Land. Poem. 1922.
_____. Sweeney Agonistes. Drama.
1932. _____. Murder in the Cathedral.
Drama. 1936. _____. The Family Reunion.
Drama. 1939.
_____. Old Possum's Book of
Practical Cats. Children's book. 1939.
_____. Four Quartets.
Poems. 1943. _____. The
Cocktail Party.Drama. 1949.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, US/British poet, critic and dramatist; b.
St Louis; Ph.D. Harvard; st. France and Germany, l. London, bank clerk
at Lloyd's; married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, expressed disgust with sex in
poetry; unhappy marriage, wife with mental problems, separated 1933;
married Vivien Eliot 1957; l. London; conservative social critic,
influential modernist poet and critic, poetic dramatist; anti-modernist
in ideas, "classicist, anglo-Catholic and monarchic"; w. as poetry ed.
for Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber; major influence on
English-speaking literary world; Order of Merit 1948; Nobel Prize for
Literature 1949; d. London.
Early 20th c.
Main actors and producers: William Archer, Harvey Granville-Barker, F.
R. Beenson, William Poel, Gordon Craig, Vesta Tilley, Oswald Stoll.
Cicely Hamilton, How the Vote Was Won. 1909.
(With 'Christopher' St John)
____. Diana of Dobson's. 1908.
Harley Granville-Barker. The Voysey
Inheritance. 1905.
John Galsworthy. Strife. 1909.
_____. Justice. 1910.
Stephen Phillips. Herod. 1900.
_____. Ulysses. 1902.
_____. Paolo and Francesca.
1902.
James Barrie. The Admirable Crichton.
1902.
_____. Peter Pan. 1904.
____________________ My Fair Lady. Dir.
George Cukor. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, based on George Bernard
Shaw's Pygmalion. Cast:
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway,
Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel.
Photog. Harry Stradling. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by
Frederick Loewe, from their musical based on George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion. Music supervisor
André Previn. Scenery & prod. des.
Cecil Beaton. Prod. Jack L. Warner, Panavision. Warner Bros., 1964. http://youtu.be/ZvUk2IUygvk
Pueden consultarse al respecto (aparte de San Google, Wikipedia,
etc.) estos materiales:
Más madera (Nivel avanzado):
Child, Harold. "VIII. Nineteenth-Century Drama." In The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature, vol. XIII (English) The Victorian Age, part One: The
Nineteenth Century, II. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online
at Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/223/index.html
2012
____, ed. Fabian Essays on Socialism.
1889.
_____. The Quintessence of Ibsenism.
Dramatic theory. 1891.
_____. Widowers' Houses.Drama.
1892.
_____.
Mrs Warren's Profession. Drama.
1893.
_____. Arms and the Man. Drama.
Prod. 1894.
_____. Theatre
reviews in The
Saturday Review. 1895-98.
Collected as
Our
Theatres in the Nineties.3
vols. 1932.
_____. The Devil's Disciple. Drama.
Prod. New York, 1897, pub. 1901.
_____. Your Never Can Tell. Drama.
Pub. 1898, 1st prod. by Grein's
Stage Society, 1899.
_____. Caesar and Cleopatra. Drama.
Pub. 1901, 1st prod. Berlin, 1906.
_____. Candida. Drama.
1895. 1898.
_____. Man and Superman. Drama.
Pub. 1903, rev. 1905, prod. 1905.
_____. John Bull's Other Island. Drama.
Prod. 1904. Pub. New York, 1907.
_____. Major Barbara. Drama.
1905.
1907.
_____. Getting Married. Drama.
Prod. 1908, pub. Berlin, 1910.
_____. Androcles and the Lion. Drama.
Pub. Berlin 1912, prod. Hamburg,
1913.
_____. Pygmalion. Drama.
Prod. Vienna, 1913; pub. Berlin, 1913.
_____. Heartbreak House. Drama.
1913-16. Prod. New York, 1919; pub. New
York, 1919.
_____. Misalliance. Drama.
1914.
_____. Back to Methuselah. Drama.
Prod. and pub. New York, 1921.
_____. St Joan. Drama.
Prod. New York, 1923, pub. 1924.
_____. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Essay.
1928.
_____. The Apple Cart: An Interlude. Drama.
Prod. Warsaw, 1929. Pub.
Berlin, 1929.
_____. Too True to Be Good. Drama.
Prod. Boston, 1932. Pub. Berlin,
1932.
_____. The Millionaress. Drama.
1936.
George Bernard Shaw, major British dramatist, b. Dublin; l. London
1876-; Failed novelist,
then journalist, art critic, book and theatre reviewer, anti-Romantic,
advocate of social realism; member of the Fabian society, activist pro
radical social and political reforms, pro-feminist, Socialist, advocate
of spelling reform; vegetarian, teetotaller. Wilful defender of
Stalinist communism and totalitarian régimes, advocated social
euthanasia of "useless" people. Married in a sexless marriage to
feminist Charlotte Payne-Townshend 1898; platonic love affairs with
several married women. World famous realist dramatist; Nobel Prize for
Literature 1925. Director of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken
English from 1934.
__________
_________
Felices navidades, y una opereta de regalo. The Pirates of Penzance, de
Gilbert & Sullivan:
COLERIDGE. _____. The Fall of
Robespierre
by Coleridge and Southey. 1794. ______, trans. Wallenstein
by Schiller. 1799-1800. _____. Remorse. 1813.
(Orig. title Osorio).
_____. Zapolya. (based on The Winter's Tale). 1816.
LAMB.
_____. Pride's Cure. Tragedy,
rev. as John Woodvil
(1802).
_____. Mr H.Farce. 1806.
_____. Tales from Shakespeare.
1807, with Mary Lamb.
_____. Specimens of English
Dramatic Poets who lived About the Time of Shakespeare(1808).
BYRON.
_____. Manfred(1817)
_____. Cain(1821).
_____. Heaven and Earth(1824)
_____. Marino Faliero(1820).
_____. The Two Foscari(1821)
_____. Sardanapalus(1821)
_____. Werner. 1823.
_____. The Deformed Transformed. 1824.https://archive.org/details/deformedtransfo00byrogoog
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
____. Prometheus Unbound.1820.
____. The Cenci. 1820.
LESSER POETS:
Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86)
_____. Isaac
Comnenus (1827),
_____. Philip van Artevelde
(1834)
_____. Edwin the Fair (1842)
_____. St Clement's Eve
(1862),
George Darley (1795-1846)
_____. Sylvia,
or the May
Queen (1827) ed. 1892
_____. Nephente
(1836) ed. in 1897.
Richard Hengist Horne (1803-84),tragedian:
_____. Cosmo de' Medici. 1837.
_____. The Death of Marlowe
(both 1837)
_____. Gregory
VII
(1840)
_____. Judas
Iscariot
(1848)
_____. Laura Dibalzo
(1880),
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49). Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Revenge, 1829,
pub. 1850.
James and Horace Smith. Rejected
Addresses
(1812).
Philip Jameson Bailey
(1816-1909). Festus. 1839-
1889
Disraeli. Count Alarcos, a Tragedy
(1839).
Charles Kingsley (1819-75). The
Saint's Tragedy.
Bulwer Lytton (1803-73). Richelieu
(1838),
_____. The Lady of Lyons
(1838)
_____. Money (1840).
MORE EARLY 19TH C. THEATRE
Main actors and managers: Charles
Kemble, Charles Macready, Edmund Kean.
Richard Lalor Sheil (1791-1851)
_____. Adelaide
(1814),
_____. The Apostate (1817)
_____. Bellamira (1818),
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) _____. Bertram; or, The
Castle of St. Aldobrand,
1816. _____. Manuel, 1816-17. _____. Fredolfo. 1817
Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)
_____. Fazio,
1818, _____. The Fall of Jerusalem (1820) _____. The Martyr of Antioch (1822) _____. Belshazzar
(1822)
James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862) _____. Caius Gracchus
(1815), _____. Virginius (1820), _____. William Tell (1825), _____. The Hunchback (1832) _____. The Love Chase (1837)
Sir Thomas Noon
Talfourd
_____. Ion
(1835)
_____. Glencoe. (1840)
John Westland Marston (1819-90). The
Patrician's
Daughter. Drama. (1842).
_____. Strathmore. Verse
tragedy. (1849)
_____. Marie de Méranie.
Verse tragedy. (1850)
Isaac Pocock (1782-1835). The Miller
and his Men,
William Thomas Moncrieff
(1794-1857) The Dandy Family. Equestrian
drama.
_____. Tom
and Jerry. 1821. _____. The Cataract of the Ganges;
or, The
Rajah's Daughter, Melodrama. 1823.
James Robinson Planché (1796-1880),
_____. Kenilworth Castle. 1820.
_____. The Vampire. 1821.
_____. Success, or A hit if you like it. Revue.
1825.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-57) ______. Fifteen Years of a Drunkard's
Life. Melodrama. 1828. ______. Black-ey'd Susan; or, All in
the Downs. Nautical melodrama. 1829.
_____. The
Mutiny of the Nore. Nautical melodrama. 1830.
_____. The Rent Day.
Melodrama. 1832.
_____. The Factory Girl.
Melodrama. 1832.
_____. Time Works Wonders.
Melodrama. 1845.
John
Baldwin Buckstone (1802-79)
______. The Green Bushes.
Melodrama. (1845)
______. The Flower of the Forest. Melodrama.
(1849)
Harlequin Reformer.
Pantomime.
R. B. Peake, The Climbing boy.
1832.
MID 19TH THEATRE
Theatre Regulation Act, 1843 (with additional safety regulations after
1878)
Main actors: Boucicault, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps.
Charles Reade (1814-84). Masks and
Faces (1852). (Novel: Peg Woffington, 1853).
_____. The Autobiography of a
Thief (1858),
_____. Jack of All Trades
(1858)
_____. A Hero and a Martyr
(1874).
_____. It is never too late to mend
(1856)
_____. Hard Cash (1863)
_____. Foul Play
(1869),
_____. Put Yourself In His Place
(1870),
_____. A Woman Hater
(1877)
_____. Griffith Gaunt (1866).
_____. Drink.
A .C. SWINBURNE. (1837-1909).
_____. Atalanta in
Calydon 1865.
_____. Chastelard. 1865
_____. Bothwell (1874)
(After Hugo'sCromwell)
_____. Erechtheus
(1876)
_____. Mary Stuart (1881)
_____. Marino
Faliero
(1885)
_____. Locrine
(1887)
_____. The Sisters
(1892),
_____. Rosamund Queen of the
Lombards (1899)
_____. The Duke
of Gandia
(1908).
Dion Boucicault
(1820-90) _____. London Assurance
(1841).
_____. The
Corsican Brothers. Drama. 1852.
_____. The Octoroon; or, Life in
Louisiana. Drama. 1859.
_____. The Colleen Bawn. Drama.
1860.
_____. The Colleen Bawn(=Benedict's operaThe
Lily of Killarney), _____. Arrah-na-Pogue
_____. The Shaughraun. Drama.
1874.
Boucicault et al. The Poor of
New York. 1857.
_____. The Poor of Liverpool.
Tom Taylor (1817-80)
_____. Plot and Passion
(1853),
_____. The Vicar of
Wakefield.
Dramatic adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's novel. 1850.
_____. Still Waters Run
Deep.
Drama. 1855.
_____. Our American Cousin
(1858),
_____. The Ticket-of-Leave Men.
Drama. 1863. (Early detective drama).
_____. Joan of Arc. Drama.
1871. _____. Twixt
Axe and Crown
(1870).
William Gorman Wills (1828-91)
_____. Charles
I (1872)
_____. Marie
Stuart (1874)
_____. Olivia
_____. Faust (from Goethe).
Mrs. Henry Wood, East
Lynne (adapt. by
John Oxenford). 1866.
Henry James
Byron (1834-84)
_____. Our
Boys (1875)
_____. Uncle Dick's
Darling
(1869).
John
Maddison Morton (1811-91),
____. Box and
Cox. 1847.(Burnand-Sullivan opera Cox
and Box)
____. Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and Bradshaw.
1851.
Cox & Box: an operetta by Burnand
and Sullivan based on Maddison Morton's Box & Cox:
Colin Hazlewood, The Work Girls of
London.
Thomas William Robertson (Tom Robertson)
(1829-71)
_____. Society.
1865.
_____. Ours (a play of
the Crimean War) in
1866,
_____. Caste. 1867,
_____. School. 1869.
James
Albery (1838-89)
_____. The Two
Roses,
____. The Pink Dominoes,
Sardou.Diplomacy(1878).
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Main actors and producers: Augustus Harris (pantomimes);
Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Dan Leno, Lewis Waller, John
Forbes-Robertson, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Helen Faucit.
Henry Arthur Jones
(1851-1929)
_____.A Clerical
Error, 1879 _____. The Silver King (1882), _____. Saints and Sinners (1884), _____. The Middleman (1889), _____. Judah (1890) _____. The Dancing Girl (1891) _____. The Tempter (1893),
_____. The Liars (1894) _____. Michael and his Lost
Angel (1896). _____. The Case of Rebellious Susan
(1897).
_____. The Magistrate _____. Dandy Dick. _____. Sweet
Lavender (1888) _____. The Profligate
(1889) _____. The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), _____. The Benefit of the Doubt (1895), _____. Iris (1901), _____. Letty (1903) _____. His House in Order
(1906). _____. Trelawny of the Wells
(1898). (On the transformation of English melodramatic theatre by T. W.
Robertson, "Trelawny" here).
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) _____. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), _____. A Woman of No Importance (1893) _____. An Ideal Husband
(1894) _____. The Importance of Being Earnest
(1895),
Stephen Phillips (1808-1914) _____. Paolo and Francesca (printed 1899,
acted 1902) _____. Herod (1901) _____. Ulysses
(1902). _____. The Sin of David _____. Nero
(1906),
POPULAR THEATRE:
George DuMaurier. Trilby. Adapted by Paul
Potter. 1895.
Edward Rose. The Prisoner of Zenda.
Drama based on Anthony Hope's novel. Staged at St. James's
Theatre, 1896.
Charles Dickens. The Only Way (based on his novel A Tale of Two
Cities). (Many Dickens adaptations)
Critics:
William Archer (1856-1924) The Theatrical
World, 5 vols. (1894-8),
Arthur Bingham Walkley
(1855-1926), Playhouse
Impressions (1892) and Drama
and Life (1937)
Shaw's in Dramatic Opinions and
Essays,
1894-8, 2 vols. (1907).
Edward Rose. The Prisoner of Zenda.
Drama based on Anthony Hope's novel. Staged at St. James's
Theatre, 1896.
Critics:
William Archer (1856-1924) The Theatrical
World, 5 vols. (1894-8),
Arthur Bingham Walkley
(1855-1926), Playhouse
Impressions (1892) and Drama
and Life (1937)
Bernard Shaw's in Dramatic Opinions
and
Essays,
1894-8, 2 vols. (1907).
William
Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911).
_____. The Palace of Truth
(1870),
_____. The Wicked World
(1873),
_____. Pygmalion and Galatea
(1871),
_____. Broken Hearts
(1875).
_____. Sweethearts
(1874),
_____. Dan'l Druce (1876)
_____. Engaged (1877)
_____. Comedy and Tragedy (1884),
OPERETTA:
Gilbert, W. S. Thespis.
Music by Arthur Sullivan. Premiere at the Adelphi, 1871.
_____. Trial by Jury. Opera
version, music by Arthur Sullivan. Premiere at the Royalty,
London, 1875.
_____. H. M. S. Pinafore.
Comic opera. Music by A. Sullivan. 1878.
_____. The Pirates of Penzance.
Comic opera. Music by A. Sullivan. 1879. Prod. New York 1879; London
1880.
_____. Patience. Comic opera.
Music by A. Sullivan. 1881.
_____. Iolanthe. Comic opera.
Music by A. Sullivan. Prod. Savoy Theatre, London, 1882.
_____. Princess Ida. Comic
opera. Music by A. Sullivan. Prod. Savoy Theatre, London, 1884. (Based
on Tennyson's The Princess.
Vs. feminism).
_____. The
Mikado. Comic
opera. Music by A. Sullivan. Prod. Savoy Theatre, London, 1885.
_____. The Yeomen of the Guard.
Comic opera. Music by A. Sullivan. Prod. Savoy Theatre, London, 1888.
_____. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Comic opera. 1891.
_____. Utopia, Limited. Comic
opera. Music by A. Sullivan. Prod. Savoy Theatre, London, 1893.
_____. The Hooligans. Comic
opera. 1911.
_____. The Savoy Operas. (collected).
1932.
En YouTube hay muchas escenas y canciones de estas
operetas. Por ejemplo, The
Ape and the Lady, canción darwinista de Princess Ida. O When
the Foeman Bares His Steel, de The
Pirates of Penzance.También
de allí
viene
la memorable canción del rey pirata, siempre de actualidad:
_________
Apenas podemos dedicar tiempo en clase, tampoco, a Oscar
Wilde. Aquí hay un
documental sobre él:
El New York Times reseña aquí
una excelente película de otra obra de Wilde: An Ideal Husband.
La opereta de Gilbert & Sullivan PATIENCE era una parodia del esteticismo de Wilde:
__________
Finales de diciembre
Añadiré aquí algunas cosas sobre el teatro del XIX, que no
veremos en clase. Dedicaremos un poquito de atención a la vuelta
a Bernard Shaw, y otro poquito al teatro desde 1950, en especial
Beckett y Pinter.
