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Author Burwick, Frederick

Title Romantic drama : acting and reacting / Frederick Burwick
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) : illustrations
Contents Periscopes into the theatre -- Nationalism and national character -- Genre: the realism of fantasy, the fantasy of realism -- Acting: histrionics and dissimulation -- Transvestites, lovers, monsters: character and sexuality -- Setting: where and elsewhere -- Gothic and anti-Gothic: comedy and horror -- Blue-Beard's castle: mischief and misogyny -- Vampires in kilts
Summary Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors exercised a persistent habit of stepping out of their roles, whether scripted or not. Burwick traces the radical shifts in acting style from Garrick to Kemble and Siddons, and to Kean and Macready, adding a new dimension to understanding the shift in cultural sensibility from early to later Romantic literature. Eye-witness accounts by theatre-goers and critics attending plays at the major playhouses of London, the provinces, and on the Continent are provided, allowing readers to identify with the experience of being in the theatre during this tumultuous period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-327) and index
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Subject Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Acting -- History -- 18th century
Acting -- History -- 19th century
Theater audiences -- Great Britain -- History
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Great Britain -- History
Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History
Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Acting
English drama
Theater
Theater and society
Theater audiences
Theater -- Political aspects
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery
Publikum
Romantik
Theater
Drama
Gesellschaft
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511769696
0511769695