Performing Shakespeare in the age of empire

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Performing Shakespeare in the age of empire

Richard Foulkes

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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LCCN:2001037957

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index

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内容説明

During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare's plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but Shakespeare's plays were performed up and down the land from the fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the expanding industrial conurbations to the north. British actors travelled the world to perform Shakespeare's plays, while foreign actors regarded success in London as the ultimate seal of approval. In this book, Richard Foulkes explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century and the movement from the business of Shakespeare as an enterprise to that of enshrinement as a cultural icon. An examination of leading Shakespearean actors, managers and directors, from Britain and abroad, is also included in the study.

目次

  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The hero as actor: William Charles Macready
  • 2. Equerries and equestrians: Phelps, Kean and Astley's
  • 3. A babel of bardolaters: the 1864 tercentenary
  • 4. Made in Manchester: Charles Calvert and George Rignold
  • 5. The fashionable tragedian: Henry Irving
  • 6. The imperial stage: Beerbohm Tree and Benson
  • 7. The national arena: Granville Barker, Louis Calvert and Annie Horniman
  • 8. The theatre of war: the 1916 tercentenary
  • In conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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