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The performing century = nineteenth-century theatre's history /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	The performing century/ edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland.
其他題名:	nineteenth-century theatre's history /
其他作者:	Davis, Tracy C.,
出版者:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2007.,
面頁冊數:	xiv, 271 p. :ill. :
叢書名:	Redefining British theatre history
標題:	Theater - History - 19th century. - Great Britain -
電子資源:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230589483

The performing century = nineteenth-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:

239976
Theater
--History--Great Britain--19th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

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

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0941/09034

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