Players, playwrights, playhouses : investigating performance, 1660-1800
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Players, playwrights, playhouses : investigating performance, 1660-1800
(Redefining British theatre history / general editor, Peter Holland)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : pbk.
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Originally published: 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book 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. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.
Table of Contents
- 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
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