Davis, Tracy C.
The Performing Century
1. Introduction: the Performing Society
Tracy C. Davis, Peter Holland
Part I. Performance Occasions
2. Boxing Day
Jim Davis
3. What are Fairies For?
Tracy C. Davis
4. Communal Performances: Royal Ritual, Revolution and National Acts
Emily Allen
5. George Edwardes and Musical Comedy: the Transformation of London Theatre and Society, 1878—1914
Thomas Postlewait
Part II. Performance Anxieties
6. Nation and Neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen: Location and Theatrical Ideology in Victorian London
Heidi J. Holder
7. Theatre History and Capital on the Victorian Stage
Jane Moody
8. Modernity, Geography and Historiography: (Re)-Mapping Irish Theatre History in the Nineteenth Century
Mark Phelan
Part III. Repertoires
9. The Death of Tragedy; or, the Birth of Melodrama
Jeffrey N. Cox
10. Fitting the Bill: Acting Out the Season of 1813/14 at the Sans Pareil
Gilli Bush-Bailey
11. Charles Mathews, Low Comedian, and the Intersections of Romantic Ideology
Edward Ziter
12. The Persistence of Closet Drama: Theory, History, Form
Catherine Burroughs
13. Shakespeare and the Music Hall
Richard Schoch
14. What Is a Play? Drama and the Victorian Circus
Jacky Bratton
Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Toimittaja
- Davis, Tracy C.
- Holland, Peter
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2007
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Redefining British Theatre History
- Sivumäärä
- 285 sivua
- Kategoria
- Taide, taidehistoria
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230589483
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-36430-5