"The stage's glory"
Subtitle: John Rich, 1692-1761
By: edited by Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780874130706
Subjects: Theatrical producers and directors; Theatrical managers; Theater; Theaters; Actors; Production and direction; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow; title: Management. John Rich as manager and entrepreneur / Robert D. Hume; title: The finances of an eighteenth-century theatre : the Lincoln's Inn Fields Company under John Rich in 1724-1725 / Judith Milhous; title: What the prompter saw : the diary of Rich's prompter, John Stede / David Hunter; title: John Rich, theatrical regulation, and the dilemma of the commercial stage / Matthew J. Kinservik; title: Dance theatre. John Rich, French dancing, and English pantomimes / Moira Goff; title: Harlequin choreographies : repetition, difference, and representation / Linda J. Tomko; title: Pierrot strikes back : Francois Nivelon at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, 1723-1738 / Jennifer Thorp; title: Musical theatre. Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows; title: "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson; title: The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow; title: Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. Rogers; title: Dramatic theatre. The impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich's repertory in the 1737-738 theatrical season : Shakespeare versus pantomme? / Fiona Ritchie; title: The nation in breeches : actress Margaret Woffington / Felicity Nussbaum; title: Scenography and iconography. Scenographies behind the scenes : mapping, classifying, and interpreting John Rich's 1744 inventory of Covent Garden / Ana Martinez; title: Harlequin Newton: John Rich's Necromancer and the public ccience of the 1720s / Al Coppola; title: Hogarth and Rich : gesture and expression in The beggar's opera / Robin Simon; title: Picturing Rich / Marcus Risdell.