The performing century
Subtitle: nineteenth-century theatre's history
By: edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland
Contributors: Davis, Tracy C., 1960-; Holland, Peter, 1951-
Series: Redefining British theatre history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230572560
Subjects: Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Boxing day / Jim Davis; title: What are fairies for? / Tracy C. Davis; title: Communal performances : royal ritual, revolution and national acts / Emily Allen; title: George Edwardes and musical comedy : the transformation of London theatre and society, 1878-1914 / Thomas Postlewait; title: Nation and neighbourhood, Jews and Englishmen : location and theatrical ideology in Victorian London / Heidi J. Holder; title: Theatre history and capital on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody; title: Modernity, geography and historiography : (re)-mapping Irish theatre history in the nineteenth century / Mark Phelan; title: The death of tragedy, or, the birth of melodrama / Jeffrey N. Cox; title: Fitting the bill : acting out the season of 1813/14 at the Sans Pareil / Gilli Bush-Bailey; title: Charles Mathews, low comedian, and the intersections of romantic ideology / Edward Ziter; title: The persistence of closet drama : theory, history, form / Catherine Burroughs; title: Shakespeare and the music hall / Richard Schoch; title: What is a play? : drama and the Victorian circus / Jacky Bratton