Restoration Plays and Players - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor David Roberts is Professor of English and Dean of the Arts at Birmingham City University. He is the author of Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: The Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor (2013) and Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage (Cambridge, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award in 2011. He has also written many journal articles, including in Shakespeare Quarterly. Klappentext An accessible and engaging introduction to Restoration drama, this book looks at the texts, performances, playhouses and people of seventeenth-century theatre. Zusammenfassung Providing an account of how Restoration plays were written! performed! printed! adapted and revived for modern audiences! this accessible and engaging book is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of theatre studies! Restoration drama and English literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Preface; 1. Regime change theatre; 2. The life cycle of the Restoration play; 3. Playwrights; 4. Companies; 5. Actors; 6. Playhouses; 7. Audiences and critics; 8. Texts and publishers; 9. Revivals and adaptations; Further reading; Timeline; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Roberts
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107027831
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02783-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights