The Performing Century Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History

by Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780230572560
• ISBN10: 0230572561
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers the latest research on a broad array of nineteenth-century performance genres, lucidly written, by leading scholars in the field. It will be of interest to students of historiography, theatre history, British popular culture, and leisure studies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History	p. xii
Introduction: the Performing Society	p. 1
Performance Occasions	p. 11
Boxing Day	p. 13
What are Fairies For?	p. 32
Communal Performances: Royal Ritual, Revolution and National Acts	p. 60
George Edwardes and Musical Comedy: the Transformation of London Theatre and Society, 1878-1914	p. 80
Performance Anxieties	p. 103
Nation and Neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen: Location and Theatrical Ideology in Victorian London	p. 105
Theatre History and Capital on the Victorian Stage	p. 121
Modernity, Geography and Historiography: (Re)-Mapping Irish Theatre History in the Nineteenth Century	p. 135
Repertoires	p. 159
The Death of Tragedy; or, the Birth of Melodrama	p. 161
Fitting the Bill: Acting Out the Season of 1813/14 at the Sans Pareil	p. 182
Charles Mathews, Low Comedian, and the Intersections of Romantic Ideology	p. 198
The Persistence of Closet Drama: Theory, History, Form	p. 215
Shakespeare and the Music Hall	p. 236
What Is a Play? Drama and the Victorian Circus	p. 250
Index	p. 263
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