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The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Theater.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- British theatre, 1730-1830
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Written by leading international scholars, chapters in this volume cover subjects such as actors and acting, playwrights and performers, including the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin and Sarah Siddons, and the major theatrical forms of the period such as comedy, melodrama and pantomime. The Companion explains what made the theatre such an important political, social and cultural venue for spectators from all classes of British society during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. An essential guide to one of the most exciting and innovative periods in British theatrical history.
- Contents:
- Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Peter Thomson
- Dictating to the empire / Jane Moody
- Scenography and technology / Christopher Baugh
- Spectatorship / Jim Davis
- Social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Lisa A. Freeman
- Tragedy / Susan Staves
- Pantomime / John O'Brien
- Romantic melodrama / Jacky Bratton
- Making of an English audience / Kristina Straub
- Women playwrights / Misty G. Anderson
- Entertaining women / Laura J. Rosenthal
- Race and profit in English theatre / Julie A. Carlson
- Private theatricals / Gillian Russell
- Opera in the London theatres / Michael Burden
- Acting in the periphery / Helen Burke
- Theatre and empire / Daniel O'Quinn
- Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Jonathan Mulrooney.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521852371
- 0521852374
- 9780521617772
- 0521617774
- OCLC:
- 133161650
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