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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances to encourage an understanding of print as material object as well as theatrical medium, emphasising the immediacy - and changeability - of theatre during the long eighteenth century.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Actress and Royal Mistress: "Pretty Witty Nell"
2. Magical Transformations: A Queen and her Many Worlds
3. Betterton's Last
Lear4. Soldiers Abroad:
The Recruting Officer in Charleston, South Carolina
5. The Pleasures of Celebrity Scandal:
The Rover's Endurance
6.Opposition
Cato: Royal Players at Leiceister House
7. An African Weeps for
Oroonoko: The Royal Slave8.
Tom Thumb in Manhattan: Lewis Hallam's Theatrical Enterprise
9.
The Chinese Festival Riots
10. National Fantasy/Wardrobe Malfunction: Royal Command Performance of Thomas Arne's
Love in a Village11. Ethnic Spectacle: Charles Macklin in
The Merchant of Venice and
Love a-la-Mode12. An Actor's Farewell: Garrick in
The Wonder13. The Re-Coronation of George III: Commemorating Handel
14. Imperial Pantomime: John O'Keefe and Philippe Jacques De Loutherbourg's
Omai, or A Trip Around the World15. Stealing
Venice Preserv'd
About the author
Daniel O'Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Kristina Straub is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Misty G. Anderson is Lindsay Young Professor of English and Joint Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA.
Summary
The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances to encourage an understanding of print as material object as well as theatrical medium, emphasising the immediacy - and changeability - of theatre during the long eighteenth century.
