| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Before the curtain / Nina Auerbach -- Actors and acting / Joseph Donohue -- The show business economy and its discontents / Tracy C. Davis -- Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft : techniques and issues / Russell Jackson -- Music for the theatre : style and function in incidental music / Michael Pisani -- Victorian and Edwardian audiences / Jim Davis / Victor Emeljanow -- Performing identities : actresses and autobiography / Mary Jean Corbett -- Comedy and farce / Michael R. Booth -- Encountering melodrama / David Mayer -- The music hall / Jacky Bratton -- Theatre of the 1890s : breaking down the barriers / Peter Raby -- New theatres for a new drama / Cary M. Mazer -- The fallen woman on stage : maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female / Sos Eltis -- Reimagining the theatre : women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period / Susan Carlson / Kerry Powell -- The East-End Theatre / Heidi J. Holder |
| Summary |
"This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft, and the audiences themselves, plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of theatre. Book jacket."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Theater -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Theater -- England -- History -- 20th century
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Powell, Kerry
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Cambridge University Press
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| ISBN |
0511999542 |
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052179157X |
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0521795362 |
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9780511999543 |
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9780521791571 |
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9780521795364 |
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