Pioneer Players
In 1922 a group of friends and mostly amateur actors centred on the playwright Louis Esson formed a company called the Pioneer Players to present plays written by and for ...
Pioneer Players Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
... Players was a company formed in 1921–22 in Melbourne by Louis Esson , Vance Palmer and Stewart Macky . Although financially limited and composed of amateur players, apart from the actor George Dawe , the company aimed at producing simple plays expressive of the life of ordinary Australians and as nationally inspiring as those staged by the Abbey Theatre in Ireland. The first season in 1922 saw the production of Esson 's ‘The Battler’ and The Woman Tamer , Stewart Macky 's ‘John Blake’ and The Trap , and plays by Gerald Byrne and Vance...
Pioneer Players (Melbourne) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
... Players (Melbourne) In 1922 a group of friends and mostly amateur actors centred on the playwright Louis Esson formed a company called the Pioneer Players to present plays written by and for Australians. Until 1926 they staged 18 new plays, including Esson's The Bride of Gospel Place ( 1926 ) and A Happy Family ( 1922 ) by Vance Palmer , one of the co-founders, before lack of funds and audiences forced them to close. Charles London Peter Fitzpatrick , Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson ...
Pioneer Players (London) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
... Players (London) Founded in 1911 by Edith Craig ‘to deal with all kinds of movements of contemporary interest…as a play is worth a hundred speeches where propaganda is concerned’. A London-based subscription theatre company which came out of Craig's involvement in the Actresses' Franchise League , the Pioneer Players brought new foreign writers such as Susan Glaspell , Paul Claudel and Leonid Andreyev to the British theatre as well as promoting home-grown plays that tackled a range of important topics from war and the vote to work, poverty and...
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The Taming of the Shrew Reference library
Michael Dobson, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...with the Act to Restrain the Abuses of Players . It seems impossible to decide whether the Folio text derives from foul papers or from a transcript which has undergone some theatrical adaptation: some of its inconsistencies have been explained by the hypothesis that Shakespeare may have been working with a collaborator, but this theory has not been generally accepted. Sources: The Taming of the Shrew has an impeccably literary sub-plot—the Bianca–Lucentio story is derived from George Gascoigne ’s pioneering prose comedy Supposes ( 1566 ), itself a...
Music Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...enduring British contribution was made by a group of foreign-born *pianists —the important ‘London Pianoforte School’ of Muzio *Clementi , J. B. *Cramer , Jan Ladislav *Dussek , and later Ignaz *Moscheles . Their piano music was both imaginative and influential, as well as pioneering in its relationship with the emerging piano technology. Reaction against foreign music concentrated upon a predominantly Italian opera house, nourishing *patriotism by an odd assortment of prejudices and misconceptions. Literary and philosophical intellectuals, wedded to an...
19 The Electronic Book Reference library
Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...be read on a computer screen, but paper was still the medium of presentation. Electronic files alone were not enough to initiate a revolution in reading. Many factors had to be in place before the era of e-books arrived. 2.2 Digital development In July 1945 Vannevar Bush, a pioneering engineer in the development of analog computing, published an article in which he introduced the Memex: a hypothetical instrument to control the ever-accumulating body of scientific literature. He envisioned an active desk that performed as a storage and retrieval system. A...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...should have attracted not only painters and illustrators (from Fuseli through Dadd and beyond) but operatic composers, from Purcell to Benjamin Britten . Critical history: Popular in its own time and beyond (‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, for example, profoundly influenced the pioneer of English nonsense poetry John Taylor ) , A Midsummer Night’s Dream fell from favour after the Restoration, dismissed as a self-indulgent novelty for most of the 18th century: Dr Johnson called it ‘wild and fantastical’, while Francis Gentleman , annotating Bell ’s...
Henry IV Part 1 Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...the imagination of the (equally corpulent) Dr Johnson (‘ Falstaff , unimitated, unimitable Falstaff , how shall I extol thee? Thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired but not esteemed, of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested’), inspired a pioneering essay on Shakespearian characterization by Maurice Morgann ( 1777 ), and has been preferred to the calculating Prince who will eventually reject him by commentators from Hazlitt through Bradley to Auden and beyond. Outside the long-running discussion of Sir John’s...
Epilogue Reference library
John Rogerson
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...If we see a chess match adjourned at, say, move nineteen, we do not need to know what moves one to eighteen were in order to appreciate the state of the game and whether one player has an advantage. That will be clear from the relation of the pieces to each other. Moves one to eighteen will, of course, be important to experts, who may discern in them a strategy by one player that will become important. The value of the chess match example for our purposes is that, crudely generalizing, we can say that prior to the advent of literary and structuralist...
Introduction to the Pauline Corpus Reference library
Terence L. Donaldson
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the prominence of Barnabas and absence of Timothy; the absence of any explicit mention of the collection project or injunctions to contribute; the restriction of his whereabouts between the first two visits to the regions of Syria and Cilicia). 5. The other minority viewpoint, pioneered by John Knox ( 1950 ), attempts to build a chronology almost entirely on the basis of information in the letters. In addition to the Jerusalem visits, there are three chronological sequences appearing explicitly in the letters: (1) from Damascus to the confrontation with Peter...
Romans Reference library
Craig C. Hill and Craig C. Hill
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the extent but also the success of his evangelistic effort. By such a measure, his ministry may be peerless. Paul's statement of purpose in vv. 20–9 serves a variety of functions. First, it explains why it has taken him so long to come to Rome. Paul's job is the founding of pioneer churches ( v. 20 ); his assignment had been the field from Jerusalem to Illyricum ( v. 19 ). Having now completed that task ( v. 23 ), he is prepared to advance to Spain. Second, it details the reason for Paul's trip to Rome and makes clear that his stay there will not be...
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