The Performing Century
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-36430-5 (ISBN)
EMILY ALLEN is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, USA JACKY BRATTON is Professor of Theatre and Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CATHERINE BURROUGHS is Professor of English at Wells College and Visiting Lecturer in English at Cornell University, USA GILLI BUSH-BAILEY is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JEFFREY N. COX is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA JIM DAVIS is Professor and Chair in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK HEIDI J. HOLDER is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA JANE MOODY is Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK MARK PHELAN is Lecturer in Drama at Queen's University, Belfast, UK THOMAS POSTLEWAIT is Professor of Theatre History at Ohio State University, USA RICHARD SCHOCH is Professor of the History of Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, UK EDWARD ZITER is Associate Professor of Theatre History in the Department of Drama at New York University, USA
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History; P.Holland Introduction: The Performing Society; T.C.Davis & P.Holland PART I: PERFORMANCE OCCASIONS Boxing Day; J.Davis What Are Faries For?; T.C.Davis Communal Performances: Royal Ritual, Revolution, and National Acts; E.Allen George Edwardes and Musical Comedy: The Transformations of London Theatre and Society, 1878-1914; T.Postlewait PART II: PERFORMANCE ANXIETIES Nation and Neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen: Location and Theatrical Ideology in the Theatre of Victorian London; H.Holder Theatre History and Capital on the Victorian Stage; J.Moody Modernity, Geography and Historiography: (Re)-Mapping Irish Theatre History on the Nineteenth Century; M.Phelan PART III: REPERTOIRES The Death of Tragedy; or, the Birth of Melodrama; J.N.Cox Fitting the Bill: Acting out the Season of 1813/14 at the Sans Pareil; G.Bush-Bailey Charles Mathews, Low Comedian, and the Intersections of Romantic Ideology; E.Ziter The Persistence of Closet Drama: Theory, History, Form; C.Burroughs Shakespeare and the Music Hall; R.Schoch What is a Play? Drama and the Victorian Circus; J.Bratton Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Redefining British Theatre History |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 271 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Comedy • Drama • Great Britain • History of Theatre • Romanticism • stage • Theatre • Tragedy • William Shakespeare |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-36430-4 / 1349364304 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-36430-5 / 9781349364305 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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