Victorian theatricals : from menageries to melodrama / Sara Hudston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudston, Sara, author.

Contributor:

Hudston, Sara, 1968-

Series:

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--19th century.

English drama.

Amateur theater--Fiction.

Amateur theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890's the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890's.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; THEATRICAL BEHAVIOUR; 1 Mansfield Park; 2 Vanity Fair; 3 Acting Proverbs; 4 The Sorrows of Satan; FUN AND FREAKS; 5 Nicholas Nickleby; 6 Far from the Madding Crowd; 7 An Evening at a Whitechapel Gaff; 8 The Enchanted Isle; 9 Jason in Colchis; 10 The Colleen Bawn; SOCIETY; 11 The Business of Matrimony; 12 The Factory Lad; 13 Society; 14 The Mikado; 15 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray; Notes on the Texts; Glossary of Victorian Stage Terms; Sources; Chronology

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781408148389

1408148382

OCLC:

865331879