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...
Pioneer Players (London)
Music Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...with ‘a complacent smile’, assisted by a trombone player who had ‘unfortunately for us’ survived *Waterloo . Even the celebrated violinist Niccolò *Paganini , who invented the idea and perfected the practice of demonic Romantic virtuosity, was also thought by some to be vulgar in repertoire and undiscriminating in choice of venue. He played, for example, at the London Tavern in the City, which Moscheles ‘thought unworthy of a great artist; but it was all one to him, for he makes money there’. Outside London, less music was made in public and it was still...
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...
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...
Introduction to the Pauline Corpus Reference library
Terence L. Donaldson
The Oxford Bible Commentary
... (London: SCM). Mack, B. L. (1990), Rhetoric and the New Testament (Minneapolis: Fortress). Meeks, W. A. (1983), The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press). Muggeridge, M., and Vidler, A. (1972), Paul: Envoy Extraordinary (London: Collins). Murphy-O'Connor, J. (1996), Paul: A Critical Life (Oxford: Clarendon). Rambo, L. R. (1993), Understanding Religious Conversion (New Haven: Yale University Press). Ramsay, W. M. (1907), St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen , 9th edn. (London:...
Romans Reference library
Craig C. Hill and Craig C. Hill
The Oxford Bible Commentary
... BNTC (London: A. & C. Black). Barth, K. (1933), The Epistle to the Romans, trans. E. C. Hoskyns (London: Oxford University Press). Baur, F. C. (1873–5), Paul, The Apostle of Jesus Christ, trans. A. P. (vol. i), and A. Menzies (vol. ii) (2 vols.; London: Williams & Norgate). Beker, C. (1980), Paul the Apostle (Philadelphia: Fortress). Bultmann, R. (1910), Der Stil der paulinischen Predigt und die kynischstoische Diatribe, FRLANT 13 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). ———(1952–5) Theology of the New Testament, trans. K. Grobel (2 vols.; London: SCM)....
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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 ...
Brodney, Spencer (1883–1973) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...Theatre Society in Melbourne with the object of producing Australian plays of merit; after his departure for London the Society, renamed the Play-goers' Club, dwindled into a play-reading social gathering and around 1909 ceased to exist. Inspired by the efforts of Louis Esson and the Pioneer Players, Brodzky later completed a provocative and spirited three-act play, Rebel Smith , published in New York in 1925 but not produced by the Pioneer...
Macky, Stewart Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
...Esson and an active member of the Pioneer Players, although his disillusionment with audience reactions and the demands of his profession made his contribution short-lived. His plays, ‘John Blake’ and The Trap , were produced in Melbourne in 1922 by the Players. Both draw upon Australia's convict past, The Trap , which is included in Best Australian One-Act Plays (1937) ed. William Moore and Tom Inglis Moore , being a dramatised version of a short story by ‘Price Warung’. In the 1930s Macky spent some time in London. A cousin of W. J. Turner , he...
Reichenberg, David (13 July 1950) Reference library
Geoffrey Burgess
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites. He also performed and recorded with the Taverner Players, London Baroque, and London Classical Players. He taught at the GSM in London and, from 1986 , the Vienna Music Academy. Before his tragically premature death from AIDS-related illnesses, Reichenberg brought a degree of professionalism to Baroque oboe playing that had rarely been encountered before in the 20th century. Geoffrey...
Dolmetsch, (Eugène) Arnold (24 Feb. 1858) Reference library
Denis Arnold and Alison Latham
The Oxford Companion to Music
...for making and repairing early instruments (notably recorders), and collected and edited manuscripts. Several members of the family were well-known players and his son Carl ( 1911–97 ), a virtuoso recorder player, carried on his father's work. Denis Arnold / Alison Latham M. Campbell , Dolmetsch: The Man and his Work (London,...
