Sheridan to Robertson : A Study of the Nineteenth-Century London Stage / Ernest Bradlee Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Ernest Bradlee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--England.

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

Theater--England--London.

Local Subjects:

Actors--England.

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

Theater--England--London.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword / Baker, George Pierce

Chapter I. LONDON LIFE AND THE STAGE

Chapter II. THEATRICAL MONOPOLY

Chapter III. THE LONDON THEATRES

Chapter IV. HISTRIONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAYHOUSE

Chapter V. THE COMMAND OF AUDIENCES

Chapter VI. THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT: CAUSES OF FAILURE

Chapter VII. EARLY MANAGEMENTS: KEMBLE AND ELLISTON

Chapter VIII. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: MACREADY

Chapter IX. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: VESTRIS

Chapter X. CONSERVATISM AND TRANSITION: WEBSTER AND BUCKSTONE, PHELPS AND THE YOUNGER KEAN

Chapter XI. THE REVOLUTIONISTS: FECHTER AND BOUCICAULT

Chapter XII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE SCENE

Chapter XIII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING OF THE POETIC DRAMA

Chapter XIV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE EARLY COMIC ACTING

Chapter XV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING IN BURLESQUE AND THE NEWER COMEDY

Chapter XVI. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE ACTING OF MELODRAMA

Chapter XVII. THE ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY BEGINNINGS

Chapter XVIII. ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY: AT THE PRINCE OF WALES'S

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-59993-4

OCLC:

979740540