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Worrall, David

 
9781108458078: Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1108458076 ISBN 13 : 9781108458078
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, unfamiliar play texts and rare printed sources. By examining prompters' records, box office receipts and benefit night takings, the study questions the status of David Garrick, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean, and recovers the neglected actress, Elizabeth Younge, and her importance to Edmund Burke.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Worrall is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures, 1773–1832 (2006), The Politics of Romantic Theatricality: The Road to the Stage (2007) and Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment (2007). He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, Lewis Walpole Library, Folger Shakespeare Library and Huntington Library, and the Library Company of Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108458076
ISBN 13 
9781108458078
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
314
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9781107043602: Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage

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ISBN 10 :  1107043603 ISBN 13 :  9781107043602
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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