Players, playwrights, playhouses : investigating performance, 1660-1800 /
This volume includes contributions from leading theatre historians and scholars in the field, including Robert D. Hume, Shearer West and Michael Dobson. It stages a dialogue and debate about the state of play in theatre studies in the period between 1660 and 1800.
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Series: | Redefining British theatre history ;
v. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Drama, theatre, and history. Theatre history, 1660-1800 : aims, materials, methodology ; Sleeping with the enemy : Aphra Behn's 'The Roundheads' and the political comedy of adultery ; Shadowing theatrical change ; Reading theatre history from account books
- Part 2. Controlling the theatre. Jeremy Collier and the politics of theatrical representation ; Reconsidering theatrical regulation in the long eighteenth century
- Part 3. Theatre beyond London. Theatre for nothing ; Mixed marriage : Sheridan, Macklin, and the hybrid audience ; Country matters : Irish 'waggery' and the Irish and British theatrical traditions
- Part 4. Representations. Universality, early modernity, and the contingencies of representing race ; Hearing the dead : the sound of David Garrick ; The visuality of the theatre.