Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830

Informationen zum Autor Jane Moody is a Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Daniel O'Quinn is Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Zusammenfassung This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. Chapters cover subjects such as actors and acting! playwrights and performers and the major theatrical forms of the period such as tragedy! melodrama and pantomime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Part I. Performance: 1. Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean Peter Thomson; 2. 'Dictating to the Empire': performance and theatrical geography in eighteenth-century Britain Jane Moody; 3. Scenography and technology Christopher Baugh; 4. Spectatorship Jim Davis; Part II. Genres: 5. The social life of eighteenth-century comedy Lisa A. Freeman; 6. Tragedy Susan Staves; 7. Pantomime John O'Brien; 8. Romantic melodrama Jacky Bratton; Part III. Identities: 9. The making of an English audience: the case of the footmen's gallery Kristina Straub; 10. Women playwrights Misty Anderson; 11. Entertaining women: the actress in eighteenth-century theatre and culture Laura J. Rosenthal; 12. Race and profit in English theatre Julie A. Carlson; Part IV. Places of Performance: 13. Private theatricals Gillian Russell; 14. Opera and theatre Michael Burden; 15. Acting in the periphery: the Irish theatre Helen Burke; 16. Theatre and Empire Daniel O'Quinn; Part V. Further Reading: 17. Reading theatre, 1730-1830 Jonathan Mulrooney; Bibliography.

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• Authors: &apos, Jane Moody, O&apos, Daniel O'Quinn, Daniel (University of Guelph O'Quinn, Daniel O''quinn, Daniel (University of Guelph O''quinn, Daniel Quinn
• Assisted by: Jane Moody (Editor), Jane (University of York) Moody (Editor), Daniel O'Quinn (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521617772
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61777-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet