Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832 - The Road to the Stage

Zusatztext '...a book positively bursting with fascinating new material...both an intriguing and rewarding foray into the plebeian culture of the minor London playhouses.' David O'Shaughnessy! British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& Review Informationen zum Autor DAVID WORRALL is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures, 1773-1832 (2006) and co-editor, with Steve Clark, of Historicizing Blake (1994), Blake in the Nineties (1999) and Blake, Nation and Empire (2006). Klappentext This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Zusammenfassung This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts! it argues for the centrality of burletta! the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Busby, Burletta and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience Dramatic Topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots Black Face and Black Mask: The Benevolent Planters Versus Harlequin Mungo Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as Fortune's Fool The Libertine Reclaimed : Burletta and the Cockney Presence The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index...

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Preface Introduction Busby, Burletta and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience Dramatic Topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots Black Face and Black Mask: The Benevolent Planters Versus Harlequin Mungo Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as Fortune's Fool The Libertine Reclaimed : Burletta and the Cockney Presence The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index

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'...a book positively bursting with fascinating new material...both an intriguing and rewarding foray into the plebeian culture of the minor London playhouses.' David O'Shaughnessy, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& Review

Product details

• Authors: D Worrall, D. Worrall, David Worrall
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349355693
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35569-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, History: specific events & topics, Political science & theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Political History, Literature: history & criticism, History: specific events and topics, World Politics, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Polis;Romanticism;theatre