Players, playwrights, playhouses: investigating performance, 1660-1800

This book, now available in paperback, brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. INDICE: List of Illustrations and Tables - Notes on Contributors - Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History; P.Holland - Introduction: Expanding Horizons; M.Cordner - PART I: DRAMA, THEATRE AND HISTORY - Theatre History, 1660-1800: Aims, Materials, Methodology; R.D.Hume - Sleeping with the Enemy: Aphra Behn's The Roundheads and the Political Comedy of Adultery; M.Cordner - Shadowing Theatrical Change; P.R.Backscheider - Reading Theatre History from Account Books; J.Milhous - PART II: CONTROLLING THE THEATRE - Jeremy Collier and the Politics of Theatrical Representation; L.A.Freeman - Reconsidering Theatrical Regulation in the Long Eighteenth Century; M.J.Kinservik - PART III: THEATRE BEYOND LONDON - Theatre for Nothing; M.Dobson - Mixed Marriage: Irish Playwrights and the Hybrid Audience; S.Cannon Harris - Country Matters: Irish Waggery and the British Theatrical Tradition; H.Burke - PART IV: REPRESENTATIONS - Universality, Early Modernity, and the Quagmire of Representing Race; M.Choudhury - Hearing the Dead: The Sound of David Garrick; P.Holland - The Visuality of the Theatre; S.West - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-25057-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 06/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés