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The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521617772 (paperback)
  • 9780521852371 (hardback)
Other title:
  • British theatre, 1730-1830
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.0942/09033 22
LOC classification:
  • PN2593 .C36 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Peter Thomson -- Dictating to the empire : performance and theatrical geography in eighteenth-century Britain / Jane Moody -- Scenography and technology / Christopher Baugh -- Spectatorship / Jim Davis -- Social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Lisa A. Freeman -- Tragedy / Susan Staves -- Pantomime / John O'Brien -- Romantic melodrama / Jacky Bratton -- The making of an English audience : the case of the footmen's gallery / Kristina Straub -- Women playwrights / Misty G. Anderson -- Entertaining women : the actress in eighteenth century theatre and culture / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Race and profit in English theatre / Julie A. Carlson -- Private theatricals / Gillian Russell -- Opera in the London theatres / Michael Burden -- Acting in the periphery : the Irish theatre / Helen Burke -- Theatre and empire / Daniel O'Quinn -- Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Jonathan Mulrooney.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.

Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Peter Thomson -- Dictating to the empire : performance and theatrical geography in eighteenth-century Britain / Jane Moody -- Scenography and technology / Christopher Baugh -- Spectatorship / Jim Davis -- Social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Lisa A. Freeman -- Tragedy / Susan Staves -- Pantomime / John O'Brien -- Romantic melodrama / Jacky Bratton -- The making of an English audience : the case of the footmen's gallery / Kristina Straub -- Women playwrights / Misty G. Anderson -- Entertaining women : the actress in eighteenth century theatre and culture / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Race and profit in English theatre / Julie A. Carlson -- Private theatricals / Gillian Russell -- Opera in the London theatres / Michael Burden -- Acting in the periphery : the Irish theatre / Helen Burke -- Theatre and empire / Daniel O'Quinn -- Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Jonathan Mulrooney.

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