An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal : with an historical view of the stage during his own time
An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal : with an historical view of the stage during his own time
In the last fifteen years alone, over 300 riots have erupted in US prisons, with enormous costs: over a hundred lives; uncounted beatings, rapes and assaults; and the destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars of prison property. Why and how do these riots occur? This book provides a fascinating and dramatic account of five major prison riots, including the Attica rebellion of 1971. They show how riots have evolved in the past twenty year in relation to America's changing penal system and society. They draw on in-depth ...
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In the last fifteen years alone, over 300 riots have erupted in US prisons, with enormous costs: over a hundred lives; uncounted beatings, rapes and assaults; and the destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars of prison property. Why and how do these riots occur? This book provides a fascinating and dramatic account of five major prison riots, including the Attica rebellion of 1971. They show how riots have evolved in the past twenty year in relation to America's changing penal system and society. They draw on in-depth interviews with rioters, transcripts of post-riot investigations, and results of a questionnaire about inmate disturbances in every maximum and medium-security prison in the US. By demonstrating that the growth of riots depends both on the state's capabilities and on inmates' pre-existing organizations, their ethnicity, and the revolts' root causes, the authors expose the absence of a consistent and realistic policy towards the prison population of the US.
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Good. Octavo, 19 cm. Second edition. Later 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, page ends washed yellow. Title page in red and black. Frontis, [16] 488 pp. Moderate rubbing to leather. Minor toning, scattered spotting. Cibber's colourful autobiography An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian was chatty, meandering, anecdotal, vain, and occasionally inaccurate. At the time of writing the word "apology" meant an apologia, a statement in defence of one's actions rather than a statement of regret for having transgressed. The text virtually ignores his wife and family, but Cibber wrote in detail about his time in the theatre, especially his early years as a young actor at Drury Lane in the 1690s, giving a vivid account of the cut-throat theatre company rivalries and chicanery of the time, as well as providing pen portraits of the actors he knew. The Apology is vain and self-serving, as both his contemporaries and later commentators have pointed out, but it also serves as Cibber's rebuttal to his harshest critics, especially Pope. For the early part of Cibber's career, it is unreliable in respect of chronology and other hard facts, understandably, since it was written 50 years after the events, apparently without the help of a journal or notes. Nevertheless, it is an invaluable source for all aspects of the early 18th-century theatre in London, for which documentation is otherwise scanty. Because he worked with many actors from the early days of Restoration theatre, such as Thomas Betterton and Elizabeth Barry at the end of their careers, and lived to see David Garrick perform, he is a bridge between the earlier mannered and later more naturalistic styles of performance. From the estate of Jim Graham, former D.C. council member, head of Whitman-Walker Clinic and gay community pioneer.
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Very Good. Later dark navy blue morocco, gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment (5 raised bands), a.e.g.; 4to; pp. [16], 346, plus frontispiece portrait. Head of spine chipped; some light scuffing along joints and edges of boards. A little marginal browning to frontispiece, but contents are otherwise fine. Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright, and Poet Laureate. This colourful memoir describes his life in a personal and anecdotal style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his "miserable mutilation" of "crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare." He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as a tragic actor he was persistent but much ridiculed. Cibber's brash, extroverted personality did not sit well with his contemporaries, and he was frequently accused of tasteless theatrical productions, shady business methods, and a social and political opportunism that was thought to have gained him the laureateship over far better poets. He rose to ignominious fame when he became the chief target, the head Dunce, of Alexander Pope's satirical poem "The Dunciad."
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4to (11¾ x 9¼ ins). Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, raised ribbed spine gilt tooled in six compartments with gilt lettered label, red sprinkled edges (boards a little chafed at edges-otherwise VG). Pp. [xviii] + 346 + [2] blank, illus with engraved frontispiece, head and tail pieces and decorative initials (no inscriptions).
