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The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in expanding global networks.
This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1800 to 1920. Highly illustrated with 51 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Editor's Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cartographing the Long Nineteenth Century
Peter Marx, University of Cologne, Germany1 Institutional Framework: Britain and Germany 1800 to 1920
Anselm Heinrich, University of Glasgow, UK2 Social Functions: The Social Function of Theatre
Jim Davis, University of Warwick, UK3 Sexuality and Gender
Laurence Senelick, Tufts University, USA4 The Environment of Theatre
Tobias Becker, German Historical Institute London, UK5 Circulation: Theatrical Mobility and its Professionalization in the Nineteenth Century
Nic Leonhardt, University of Cologne, Germany and Stanca Scholz-Cionca, University of Trier, Germany6 Interpretations: The Interpretation of Theatre
Peter W. Marx, University of Cologne, Germany7 Communities of Production
Kathleen M. Gough, the University of Vermont, USA, Zoltan Imre, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, Introduction by Peter W. Marx, University of Cologne, Germany8 Repertoire and Genres
Christopher Balme, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany9 Technologies of Performance
Sophie Nield, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory
Derek Miller, Harvard University, USANotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Peter W. Marx is Professor at the Institute for Media Culture and Theater, University of Cologne, Germany.
Summary
The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in expanding global networks.
This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1800 to 1920. Highly illustrated with 51 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Foreword
The definitive overview of the cultural history of theatre in the age of empire.
