The integration, application, and evaluation of playbills in historical research / author, Abigail Robinson (University of York, UK).

Format:

Website/Database

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Abi, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), contributor, commissioning body, digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research.

Methodology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2021.

Summary:

This case study will provide you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to use playbills within your historical research. To this end, I will incorporate various examples of nineteenth-century playbills and other theatrical items, such as public notices, for performances of works by Lord Byron. Existing within an exciting category of historical documents known as ephemera, playbills are relatively understudied within the discipline but offer a broad range of research opportunities. After asking preliminary questions of the source material, I will outline the contextual information, and, following this, I will work through increasingly analytical and critical questions, arriving at a thorough evaluation of some items within the collection. This will illustrate approaches that you can take forward as part of your own work with playbills. Finally, I will offer some suggestions of how you can fit playbills into your individual scholarly interests. By the end of this case study, you should have a comprehensive understanding of how playbills, when you ask the right questions of them, have the potential to reveal a wealth of information about the theatre, print culture, and society of the time.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2022).

Publisher Number:

10.47594/RMPS_0120

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.