The performing century:nineteenth-century theatre's history
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Group Author: | ; |
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Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Basingstoke [England] New York |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Redefining British theatre history |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 271 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0230572561 (alk. paper) 9780230572560 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | J809 |
CLC: | J809.561 |
Call Number: | J809.561/P438 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Boxing day / Jim Davis -- What are fairies for? / Tracy C. Davis -- Communal performances : royal ritual, revolution and national acts / Emily Allen -- George Edwardes and musical comedy : the transformation of London theatre and society, 1878-1914 / Thomas Postlewait -- Nation and neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen : location and theatrical ideology in Victorian London / Heidi J. Holder -- Theatre history and capital on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- Modernity, geography and historiography : (re)-mapping Irish theatre history in the nineteenth century / Mark Phelan -- The death of tragedy, or, the birth of melodrama / Jeffrey N. Cox -- Fitting the bill : acting out the season of 1813/14 at the Sans Pareil / Gilli Bush-Bailey -- Charles Mathews, low comedian, and the intersections of romantic ideology / Edward Ziter -- The persistence of closet drama : theory, history, form / Catherine Burroughs -- Shakespeare and the music hall / Richard Schoch -- What is a play? : drama and the Victorian circus / Jacky Bratton. |