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Playing to the crowd : London popular theater, 1780-1830 /

Main Author: Burwick, Frederick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:
Theater > History > 18th century. > England > London
Theater > History > 19th century. > England > London
Ethnic theater > History > 18th century. > England > London
Ethnic theater > History > 19th century. > England > London
Theater audiences > History > 18th century. > England > London
Theater audiences > History > 19th century. > England > London
London (England) > Social life and customs > 18th century
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century
Table of Contents:
  • Children on stage : idealised, demonised, eroticised
  • The M.P. or the blue-stocking : Moore and Irish protest
  • Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves
  • Glenarvon : impersonating Lord Byron
  • Foscari : Mitford's dramaturgy of the unspoken and unexplained
  • Wilhelm Tell on the London stage
  • Heroic rebels and highwaymen
  • London crime : executioners, murderers, detectives
  • Transpontine theatres and working-class audiences.

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