Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Subtitle: London popular theatre, 1780-1830
By: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780230116863
Subjects: Social life and customs; Theater; Ethnic theater; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Theater audiences; History
Description: "Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is 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"--
Table of contents: title: Children on stage : idealised, demonised, eroticised; title: The M.P. or the blue-stocking : Moore and Irish protest; title: Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves; title: Glenarvon : impersonating Lord Byron; title: Foscari : Mitford's dramaturgy of the unspoken and unexplained; title: Wilhelm Tell on the London stage; title: Heroic rebels and highwaymen; title: London crime : executioners, murderers, detectives; title: Transpontine theatres and working-class audiences.