Distance, theatre, and the public voice, 1750-1850 / Melynda Nuss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuss, Melynda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

Space and time in literature.

English drama--19th century--History and criticism.

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

Theater.

Theater audiences.

Authors and readers.

Great Britain.

History.

Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Authors and readers--Great Britain.

Theater audiences--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"Distance, Theater and the Public Voice explores the ways in which theater helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. As theaters expanded, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Distance, Theater and the Public Voice shows how writers experimented with theatrical situations--both old and new, legitimate and illegitimate--as they crafted a voice that could sound intimate and personal even as it broadcast itself to an imagined public"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: Impossible Theaters

1. Pantomime: Killing the Drama in Order to Save It

2. Spaces with Meaning: Crossing from Stage to Closet in Byron and Inchbald

3. Man Seeing: Wordsworth and the Theatrical Voice

4. 'The Great Master Of Ideal Mimicry": Shelley's Struggle With The Actor

5. Creative Spectacle: Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quincey

Conclusion: Reaching a Mass Audience Face to Face.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137291400

1137291400

OCLC:

798615469

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