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The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830
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Offering a wide-ranging and innovative guide to an exciting and important period in British theatrical history, this volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting ...
Offering a wide-ranging and innovative guide to an exciting and important period in British theatrical history, this volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 273 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781139001656, 1139001655, 9780521852371
- OCLC
- ocn723453913
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Jan. 27, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Performance -- Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Peter Thomson -- Dictating to the empire: performance and theatrical geography in eighteenth-century Britain / Jane Moody -- Scenography and technology / Christopher Baugh -- Spectatorship / Jim Davis -- Genres -- The social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Lisa A. Freeman -- Tragedy / Susan Staves -- Pantomime / John O'Brien -- Romantic melodrama / Jacky Bratton -- Identities -- The making of an English audience: the case of the footmen's gallery / Kristina Straub -- Women playwrights / Misty G. Anderson -- Entertaining women: the actress in eighteenth-century theatre and culture / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Race and profit in English theatre / Julie A. Carlson -- Places of Performance -- Private theatricals / Gillian Russell -- Opera in the London theatres / Michael Burden -- Acting in the periphery: the Irish theatre / Helen Burke -- Theatre and empire / Daniel O'Quinn -- Further Reading -- Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Jonathan Mulrooney