Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750-1850

Zusatztext 'In this taut little book! Nuss examines the ways that literary figures experimented with theatre forms and techniques as public theatres proliferated from the 18th into 19th century . . . This solid study will interest advanced students and scholars exploring the nexus of performance and literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Melynda Nuss is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas-Pan American, USA. Klappentext As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries! the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Zusammenfassung As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries! the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Impossible Theaters 1. Pantomime: Killing the Drama in Order to Save It 2. Spaces with Meaning: Crossing from Stage to Closet in Byron and Inchbald 3. Man Seeing: Wordsworth and the Theatrical Voice 4. 'The Great Master Of Ideal Mimicry": Shelley´s Struggle With The Actor 5. Creative Spectacle: Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quincey Conclusion: Reaching a Mass Audience Face to Face

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Introduction: Impossible Theaters 1. Pantomime: Killing the Drama in Order to Save It 2. Spaces with Meaning: Crossing from Stage to Closet in Byron and Inchbald 3. Man Seeing: Wordsworth and the Theatrical Voice 4. 'The Great Master Of Ideal Mimicry": Shelley´s Struggle With The Actor 5. Creative Spectacle: Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quincey Conclusion: Reaching a Mass Audience Face to Face

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'In this taut little book, Nuss examines the ways that literary figures experimented with theatre forms and techniques as public theatres proliferated from the 18th into 19th century . . . This solid study will interest advanced students and scholars exploring the nexus of performance and literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - CHOICE

Product details

• Authors: M Nuss, M. Nuss, Melynda Nuss
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349450800
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45080-0
• No. of pages: 207
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Theater, B, Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literature: history & criticism, Theatre and Performance Arts, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies