Robert D Hume

Biographic Data

ID1017101
NAMERobert D Hume
GIVEN NAMESRobert D
FAMILY NAMEHume
SIGNATUREHUME R D
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS30
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • The Morphology of Handel's Operas

    Robert D HumeARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2022

    Little scholarly attention has been devoted to the dramaturgy of Handel's operas, which seems secondary to musical and circumstantial matters of venue and performers. This article argues that important things can be learned by attempting to categorize, analyze, and assess the librettos in strictly dramaturgical terms. We need to ask whether there is coherence or development, and what Handel wanted in the librettos he set. Handel's operas have gen…

  • Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690–1800

    Robert D HumeARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2019

    Review Article| September 01 2019 Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690–1800 McGirr, Elaine M.. Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Pp. ix + 210. $99.99 Robert D. Hume Robert D. Hume Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-77…

  • The Problematics of “Evidence” in Historical Scholarship and Criticism

    Robert D HumeARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2017Cited by: 1

    This essay asks us to rethink the evidentiary basis for the claims we make in historical scholarship and criticism. How certain can we be of what we think we know? What evidence do we have, and can it be tested or otherwise verified? Many biographical questions cannot be answered with any confidence. Was Jonathan Swift a virgin? Opinions differ, and evidence is lacking. In theater history huge gaps in performance records prior to the advent of da…

  • Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, Vol. 2: Volume II

    Andrew Marvell, 2nd Duke of Buckingham George Villiers et al.BOOKPlays, Poems, and Miscellaneous…2007

  • Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, Vol. 1: Volume I

    second duke of Buckingham George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham George…BOOKPlays, Poems, and Miscellaneous…2007

    VOLUME II MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS A Letter to Sir Thomas Osborn To Mr Martin Clifford on his Humane-Reason A Hue-and-Cry after Beauty and Vertue The Militant Couple An Essay upon Reason, and Religion, In a Letter to Nevil Pain, Esq A Short Discourse upon the Reasonableness of Men's Having a Religion The Duke of Buckingham His Grace's Letter, to the Un-known Author of a Paper, Entitled, A Short Answer to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham's Paper Con…

  • Ballad opera

    Curtis Price, Robert D HumeCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • London (i)

    Nicholas Temperley, Philip Olleson et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Librettist versus Composer: The Property Rights to Arne's Henry and Emma and Don Saverio

    Open AccessJudith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLEJournal of the Royal Musical…1997References: 1

    Little attention has ever been paid to a pair of mid-career flops by Thomas Augustine Arne. Henry and Emma died in one night in 1749; Don Saverio struggled through three nights amidst hisses in 1750. Roger Fiske points out in a brief discussion that the latter is of some historical significance: it was a pioneering attempt to mount an English form of opera buffa on the London stage. Ten years later, Arne's Thomas and Sally was to succeed in persu…

  • J. F. Lampe and English Opera at the Little Haymarket in 1732-3

    Judith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLEMusic and Letters1997

    JUDITH MILHOUS, ROBERT D. HUME; J. F. LAMPE AND ENGLISH OPERA AT THE LITTLE HAYMARKET IN 1732–3, Music and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, 1 November 1997, Pa

  • Eighteenth-century Equity Lawsuits in the Court of Exchequer as a Source for Historial Research

    Open AccessJudith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLEHistorical Research1997

    Equity lawsuits in the court of Exchequer remain neglected by historical scholars. They present a treasure-trove for historians, literary scholars, musicologists and others: any suit that could be brought in Chancery between the mid-seventeenth century and 1841 could equally well be brought in Exchequer. Relying largely on name searches, we have discovered more than fifty suits connected with our own interests in theatre and opera history. Organi…

  • Italian Opera in Late 18th-Century London, Volume 1: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791

    Peter Holman, Curtis Price et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1995

  • A Register of English Theatrical Documents 1600-1737

    R A Foakes, Judith Milhous et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1992Cited by: 7

  • The Rebuilding of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1789-1791

    Curtis Price, Judith Milhous et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1991Cited by: 1

    The rebuilding of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, after its destruction by fire in June 1789 has occasioned virtually no surprise or analysis. Built by Sir John Vanbrugh and opened in 1705, the theater had been London's principal Italian opera house for nearly a century and Michael Novosielski's new theater of 1791 was to remain so until the late 1840s. Hailed at the time as an architectural marvel of a size and

  • Fielding's Burlesque Drama: Its Place in the Tradition

    Open AccessJill Campbell, Peter Lewis et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review1990

  • The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century

    Robert D HumeBOOKThe Development of English Drama…1990Cited by: 2

    Originally published in 1976, this highly acclaimed, full-scale account of Restoration drama is now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710, the author fully explores the diversity of the plays as they reflect the fads and fashions of a small, highly competitive theatre world constantly buffeted by political and social change. Anxious to avoid misleading gene…

  • The Drury Lane Actors' Rebellion of 1743

    Judith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLETheatre Journal1990

    Theater historians have passed lightly over the Drury Lane actors' rebellion of 1743. Specialists will recall two important facts about this episode: the actors lost, and a bitter public quarrel between Macklin and Garrick resulted. Previous accounts have focused on this personal row. Despite the profusion of pamphlets published on both sides, little has been known about the details of the actors' complaints or the manager's reply. Larger issues …

  • George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham

    Robert D Hume, John O’neill et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988

  • Handel and Opera Management in London in the 1730s

    Robert D HumeARTICLEMusic and Letters1986

    The 'Second Academy' opened in 1729 and collapsed in 1734 after a year of cut-throat competition from the Opera of the Nobility. Handel then moved to Covent Garden, where he spent three disastrous years. At the end of this time he was broken in health and if not actually bankrupt (as was once believed) perhaps not far from it. After the dissolution of the Opera of the Nobility in 1737, Handel, rallying from a stroke, rejoined Heidegger at the Hay…

  • Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays, 1675-1707

    Jack A Vaughn, Judith Milhous et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1986Cited by: 2

  • Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays 1675-1707

    B Mch, Judith Milhous et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1986

    Producible interpretation is a critical method used by Milhous Hume to examine eight plays. For each play they present deductions based upon six kinds of investigation: close reading; analysis of the original cast reception of the original production; study of the scenery machines required for performance; historical reading in terms of 17th-century values views of subject matter; a survey of the play s production history; analysis of modern crit…

  • The Charter for the Royal Academy of Music

    Judith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLEMusic and Letters1986Cited by: 1

    JUDITH MILHOUS, ROBERT D. HUME; THE CHARTER FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Music and Letters, Volume 67, Issue 1, 1 January 1986, Pages 50–58, https://doi

  • The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800

    James A Winn, Robert D HumeARTICLETheatre Journal1984Cited by: 4

    Content and meaning in the drama -- Restoration comedy and its audiences, 1660-1776 / Arthur H. Scouten and Robert D. Hume -- Otway and the comic muse -- The satiric design of Nat. Lee's The Princess of Cleve -- The myth of the rake in Restoration comedy-- Marital discord in English comedy from Dryden to Fielding -- The multifarious forms of eighteenth-century comedy -- The world is all alike -- The London theatre from The beggar's opera to the L…

  • The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

    Robert D Hume, John Wilmot et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1983

  • New Light on Handel and the Royal Academy of Music in 1720

    Judith Milhous, Robert D HumeARTICLETheatre Journal1983Cited by: 2

    Eight unpublished manuscripts among the Portland papers on deposit at the University of Nottingham Library shed considerable light on hitherto unknown details of the operation of the Royal Academy of Music in its first season.' Added to known but incompletely printed manuscripts in the Public Record Office and to the information collected in Deutsch and substantially augmented by J. Merrill Knapp, these documents go a long way toward filling in t…

  • The London Theatre World, 1660-1800

    Lance Bertelsen, Robert D HumeARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982