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The performing centurynineteenth-century theatre's history /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The performing centuryedited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland.
Reminder of title:	nineteenth-century theatre's history /
other author:	Davis, Tracy C.,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	xiv, 271 p. :ill.
Series:	Redefining British theatre history
Subject:	TheaterHistory19th century.Great Britain
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230589483

The performing centurynineteenth-century theatre's history /
The performing centurynineteenth-century theatre's history /[electronic resource] :edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xiv, 271 p. :ill. - Redefining British theatre history.

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 ofLondon theatre and society, 1878-1914 / Thomas Postlewait -- Nation and neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen : location and theatrical ideologyin 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, andthe 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? : dramaand the Victorian circus / Jacky Bratton.

In this final volume of the Redefining British Theatre History series, an innovative and wide-ranging collection of essays brings together leading scholars from Britain and America. The Performing Century looksat modes of performance and forms of theatre in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, placing drama and performance in the social and cultural contexts of the rapid transformations in nineteenth-century society. From the vogue for fairy plays to the acting styles of melodrama, from the work of the impresario George Edwardes to the solo comic performances of Charles Matthews, from launching ships in Belfast to royal weddings in England, from the representation of economics in drama to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, from the Boxing Day audiences for pantomimes to the nature of circus, the authors bring new perspectives to bear on familiar material and radically redefinethe meaning of theatre and performance in the nineteenth century.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230589483

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230589483doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

195659
Theater
--History--Great Britain--19th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN2594 / .P47 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0941/09034

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