Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 1750-1850 [electronic resource] /
Nuss, M.author.
As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Impossible Theaters: Distance, Theatre, and the Romantic Voice -- 1. Pantomime: Killing the Drama in Order to Save It -- 2. Spaces with Meaning: Crossing from Stage to Closet in Byron and Inchbald -- 3. Man Seeing: Wordsworth and the Theatrical Voice -- 4. 'The Great Master Of Ideal Mimicry": Shelley's Struggle With The Actor -- 5. Creative Spectacle: Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quincey -- Conclusion: Reaching a Mass Audience Face to Face.
Great Britain-History.
Performing arts.
Theater-History.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Theater.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Theatre and Performance Studies.