Background
Hume, Robert David was born on July 25, 1944 in Oak Ridge. Son of David Newton and Aloyse Greta (Bottenwiser) Hume.
(This book attempts to justify and theorize old historicis...)
This book attempts to justify and theorize old historicism, defining archaeo-historicism as a method by which scholars can reconstruct past context in order to apply it to the interpretation of works and events of that time. In this intriguing and rigorous analysis, Robert Hume identifies legitimate objects for reconstruction by which such interpretation may be pursued. The book offers a profusion of examples of good and bad historicist reconstruction and interpretation.
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(This highly acclaimed full-scale account of Restoration d...)
This highly acclaimed full-scale account of Restoration drama vividly chronicles the drama's changing patterns decade-by-decade from 1660 to 1710. Providing a detailed, chronological survey of some five hundred plays, Hume traces the emergence of numerous dramatic modes, studies their interaction and mutual influence, and fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theater world constantly undergoing political and social change.
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(Following on from the volume on The King's Theatre, Hayma...)
Following on from the volume on The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791 (published in 1995), this interdisciplinary study of opera and ballet now turns to London's Pantheon Opera during the period 1789-95. The Pantheon Opera, founded in 1790, aimed to give London a kind of court opera that would feature opera seria and ballet d'action. It tried to hire Mozart to compete with Haydn, but its high aspirations led only to a quick bankruptcy. A recent major archival discovery has permitted startlingly full analysis of the company's repertoire, costumes, staging practices, and finances.
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(Fielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and t...)
Fielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and theatre manager have long been neglected. This contextual study restores him to his rightful place in English theatrical history and acknowledges his pioneering accomplishments, from his fabulous success at age 23 and hard times when the Drury Lane company fell apart, to his innovations as manager of his own troupe in 1736.
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( Producible interpretation” is a critical method used b...)
Producible interpretation” is a critical method used by Milhous and Hume to examine eight plays. For each play they present deductions based upon six kinds of investigation: close reading; analysis of the original cast and reception of the original production; study of the scenery and machines required for performance; historical reading in terms of 17th-century values and views of subject matter; a survey of the play’s production history; and analysis of modern critical opinion. The plays they examine in this manner are: The Country-Wife; All for Love; The Spanish Fryar; Venice Preserv’d; Amphitryon; The Wives Excuse; Love for Love; and The Beaux’ Stratagem. With each evaluation their emphasis is on the stage-worthiness of the interpretation. They stress that If it can be staged effectively it must possess some kind of validity, even if it is demonstrably remote from the apparent intention of the author and the original production.”
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(This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of wh...)
This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy-out, plunging the opera into escalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singers and dancers in Europe; ballet d'action came to London, with Noverre himself as ballet master; the company employed such composers as Sacchini, Anfossi, Cherubini and ultimately Haydn; it went bankrupt and carried on through years of wrangling in chancery; the King's Theatre burned down in 1789 and was rebuilt and re-opened in defiance of the Lord Chamberlain's refusal to license the new building. Drawing on libretti and scores, ballet scenarios, pamphlets, scattered manuscripts, legal records, architectural drawings, newspapers, and other sources, the authors reconstruct the history of the company and its shifting artistic policies, analyzing opera and ballet repertory, performers, production circumstances, finances, and managerial infighting.
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Hume, Robert David was born on July 25, 1944 in Oak Ridge. Son of David Newton and Aloyse Greta (Bottenwiser) Hume.
Bachelor, Haverford College, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1969.
Assistant professor Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1969—1974, associate professor, 1974—1977. Professor department English Pennsylvania State University, since 1977.
(This book attempts to justify and theorize old historicis...)
(Following on from the volume on The King's Theatre, Hayma...)
(This highly acclaimed full-scale account of Restoration d...)
(This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of wh...)
(Fielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and t...)
( Producible interpretation” is a critical method used b...)
Member of American Society 18th Century Studies, Society Theatre Research, American Society Theatre Research.
Married Kathryn Irvine, June 18, 1966.