Players, playwrights, playhouses : investigating performance, 1660-1800 / edited by Michael Cordner and Peter Holland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cordner, Michael.

Holland, Peter, 1951-

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Redefining British theatre history ; v. 4.

Redefining British theatre history ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Theater.

Great Britain.

History.

Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--18th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This innovative collection brings together a group of leading theatre historians to identity and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries are multi-faceted, ranging from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the investigation of playhouse finances, from the performance representation of Othello and Oroonoko to the political resonances of adultery comedy, and from Garrick's vocal art to the interpretation of contemporary paintings of actors and actresses.

Contents:

Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History / Peter Holland xi

Introduction: Expanding Horizons / Michael Cordner 1

Part 1 Drama, Theatre, and History

1 Theatre History, 1660-1800: Aims, Materials, Methodology / Robert D. Hume 9

2 Sleeping with the Enemy: Aphra Behn's The Roundheads and the Political Comedy of Adultery / Michael Cordner 45

3 Shadowing Theatrical Change / Paula R. Backscheider 78

4 Reading Theatre History from Account Books / Judith Milhous 101

Part 2 Controlling the Theatre

5 Jeremy Collier and the Politics of Theatrical Representation / Lisa A. Freeman 135

6 Reconsidering Theatrical Regulation in the Long Eighteenth Century / Matthew J. Kinservik 152

Part 3 Theatre beyond London

7 Theatre for Nothing / Michael Dobson 175

8 Mixed Marriage: Sheridan, Macklin, and the Hybrid Audience / Susan Cannon Harris 189

9 Country Matters: Irish 'Waggery' and the Irish and British Theatrical Traditions / Helen Burke 213

Part 4 Representations

10 Universality, Early Modernity, and the Contingencies of Representing Race / Mita Choudhury 231

11 Hearing the Dead: the Sound of David Garrick / Peter Holland 248

12 The Visuality of the Theatre / Shearer West 271.

Notes:

Published in association with the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780230525245

0230525245

OCLC:

156890890