Title: Distance Theatre And The Public Voice 17501850
Description: "Distance, Theater and the Public Voice explores the ways in which theater helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. As theaters expanded, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Distance, Theater and the Public Voice shows how writers experimented with theatrical situations--both old and new, legitimate and illegitimate--as they crafted a voice that could sound intimate and personal even as it broadcast itself to an imagined public"--
Subjects: Dramatic criticism, Theater, English drama, Space and time in literature, History and criticism, Romanticism, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Authors and readers, Theater audiences, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, History, DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh