Playing to the Crowd [electronic resource] : London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 /
Burwick, F.author.
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
Theater.
Literature.
Theater—History.
British literature.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literature, general.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.