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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Routledge Historical Resources Series |
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Routledge Historical Resources Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Suggested further reading -- General introduction -- Introduction to volume II: theatre and drama criticism -- Part 1 Theatrical debates -- 1.1 Melodrama and the shock of the new -- 1 'Theatre', Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, November 1802 -- 2 'The theatres', The Satirist -- or Censor of the Times, 19 February 1832 -- 3 'Monster melo-drame', The Satirist -- or Monthly Meteor, 1 January, 1808 -- 4 D-G [George Daniels], 'Remarks' on A Tale of Mystery, from Cumberland's British theatre |
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5 'Surrey theatre', The Mirror of the Stage: or, New Dramatic Censor 13 January, 1823 -- 6 Walter Scott, extract from 'An essay on the drama' -- 7 Joanna Baillie, extract from A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind -- 8 Henry Barton Baker, 'The old melodrama' -- 1.2 The decline of the drama, and the national theatre -- 9 Edward Lytton Bulwer, 'The drama' -- 10 Extracts from the Evidence from the 1832 Select Committee Report: Committee recommendations -- Evidence from John Payne Collier -- Evidence from Douglas Jerrold |
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Evidence from William Thomas Moncrieff -- 11 D. J. [Douglas Jerrold], 'The rights of dramatists' -- 12 Vivian, [George Henry Lewes] 'Dreary lane' -- 13 [George Henry Lewes] 'Vivian in tears' -- 14 'Why I don't write plays', Pall Mall Gazette, August 31, 1892 -- 15 'Why I don't write plays', Judy, 28 September, 1892 -- 16 Effingham Wilson, A house for Shakespere: A proposition for the nation -- 17 William Archer & Granville Barker, 'Preface', in A national theatre. scheme and estimates -- 18 Henry Arthur Jones, 'The future of English drama' -- 1.3 The woman question |
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19 'Women as dramatists', All the Year Round, 29 September, 1894 -- 20 'Women as playwrights', The Sketch, 8 June, 1898 -- 21 'Women playwrights', The Era, 6 November, 1897 -- 22 Madge Kendal, The drama -- 23 Raymond Blathwayt, Does the theatre make for good? A talk with Mr. Clement Scott, reprinted from 'Great Thoughts' -- 1.4 On theatrical criticism -- 24 Leigh Hunt, 'Appendix' [Rules for the theatrical critic of a newspaper] to Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres -- 25 'On theatrical criticism', The Musical World, 30 May 1839 |
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26 William Archer, 'The ethics of theatrical criticism' -- 27 R. M. Sillard, 'Concerning theatrical criticism' -- Part 2 Theatrical aesthetics in practice -- 2.1 Pantomime -- 28 'Introductory chapter', Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, by Boz [Charles Dickens] -- 29 'Female management', The Spectator, 8 January, 1831 -- 30 'Theatres', John Bull, 29 December, 1834 -- 31 'Pantomimes and Christmas pieces', Illustrated London News, 28 December, 1844 -- 32 'Boxing Day', The Era, 28 December, 1897 -- 33 Percy Fitzgerald, 'Stage illusion -- mechanism' -- 34 Henry J. Byron, 'Pantomimical' -- 2.2 Tragedy |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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35 Leigh Hunt, Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres |
| Subject |
Criticism-Great Britain-History-19th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000438017 |
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1000438015 |
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9781032059273 |
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1032059273 |
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9781003199878 |
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1003199879 |
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