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- catalog abstract "Playing Out the Empire provides a unique introduction to the 'toga play', a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late nineteenth century and re-emerged in silent cinema and later 'epics', and which sheds important new light on British and American social and cultural history. The volume brings together the most important playscripts and film scenarios of the genre. Set in the post-Republican Roman Empire, toga plays and films presented Roman and Jewish heroes, Christian virgins, seductive 'adventuresses', insane Emperors, savage lions, and racing chariots. But, as David Mayer shows in his lively critical introductions, the plays also ventured clandestinely into issues of class, gender, religion, immigration, and imperialism. Among the restored scripts and scenarios included here - all of which are previously unpublished and generously illustrated - are those of Claudian (1883); the most popular of all Victorian melodramas, The Sign of the Cross (1895); and the stage spectacular Ben-Hur (1899), together with its earliest cinematic version (1907). D.W. Griffith's first toga film, The Barbarian Ingomar (1908) is represented by a lengthy selection of film stills. . At a time of growing interest in the relationship between Victorian popular theatre and early cinema, this ground-breaking book reveals a highly significant - but critically neglected - theatrical and cinematic genre.".
- catalog contributor b5700374.
- catalog contributor b5700375.
- catalog coverage "Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Drama.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ". At a time of growing interest in the relationship between Victorian popular theatre and early cinema, this ground-breaking book reveals a highly significant - but critically neglected - theatrical and cinematic genre.".
- catalog description "Among the restored scripts and scenarios included here - all of which are previously unpublished and generously illustrated - are those of Claudian (1883); the most popular of all Victorian melodramas, The Sign of the Cross (1895); and the stage spectacular Ben-Hur (1899), together with its earliest cinematic version (1907). D.W. Griffith's first toga film, The Barbarian Ingomar (1908) is represented by a lengthy selection of film stills.".
- catalog description "Filmography: p. [315]-321.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Music of toga drama / Katherine Preston -- Claudian / Henry Herman and W.G. Wills -- Last days of Pompeii / James Pain -- Sign of the cross / Wilson Barrett -- Ben-Hur (play) / William Young -- Charioteers / Marshall Moore -- Ben-Hur (film) / Kalem Company -- Barbarian Ingomar / D.W. Griffith.".
- catalog description "Playing Out the Empire provides a unique introduction to the 'toga play', a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late nineteenth century and re-emerged in silent cinema and later 'epics', and which sheds important new light on British and American social and cultural history.".
- catalog description "The volume brings together the most important playscripts and film scenarios of the genre. Set in the post-Republican Roman Empire, toga plays and films presented Roman and Jewish heroes, Christian virgins, seductive 'adventuresses', insane Emperors, savage lions, and racing chariots. But, as David Mayer shows in his lively critical introductions, the plays also ventured clandestinely into issues of class, gender, religion, immigration, and imperialism.".
- catalog extent "xii, 321 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Playing out the empire.".
- catalog identifier "0198119909 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Playing out the empire.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Playing out the empire.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Drama.".
- catalog subject "822/.80358 20".
- catalog subject "English drama 19th century.".
- catalog subject "English drama 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Historical drama, American.".
- catalog subject "Historical drama, English.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture plays, American.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture plays, English.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture plays.".
- catalog subject "PR1255 .P57 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Music of toga drama / Katherine Preston -- Claudian / Henry Herman and W.G. Wills -- Last days of Pompeii / James Pain -- Sign of the cross / Wilson Barrett -- Ben-Hur (play) / William Young -- Charioteers / Marshall Moore -- Ben-Hur (film) / Kalem Company -- Barbarian Ingomar / D.W. Griffith.".
- catalog title "Playing out the empire : Ben-Hur and other toga plays and films, 1883-1908 : a critical anthology / edited with introduction and notes by David Mayer ; and an essay on the incidental music for toga dramas by Katherine Preston.".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".