The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 /
The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 /
edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge companions to literature .
P.B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Dictating to the empire / Scenography and technology / Spectatorship / Social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Tragedy / Pantomime / Romantic melodrama / Making of an English audience / Women playwrights / Entertaining women / Race and profit in English theatre / Private theatricals / Opera in the London theatres / Acting in the periphery / Theatre and empire / Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Peter Thomson -- Jane Moody -- Christopher Baugh -- Jim Davis -- Lisa A. Freeman -- Susan Staves -- John O'Brien -- Jacky Bratton -- Kristina Straub -- Misty G. Anderson -- Laura J. Rosenthal -- Julie A. Carlson -- Gillian Russell -- Michael Burden -- Helen Burke -- Daniel O'Quinn -- Jonathan Mulrooney.
9780521617772 (pbk)
Theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PN2593 / C25 2007
792.094209033
P.B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean / Dictating to the empire / Scenography and technology / Spectatorship / Social life of eighteenth-century comedy / Tragedy / Pantomime / Romantic melodrama / Making of an English audience / Women playwrights / Entertaining women / Race and profit in English theatre / Private theatricals / Opera in the London theatres / Acting in the periphery / Theatre and empire / Reading theatre, 1730-1830 / Peter Thomson -- Jane Moody -- Christopher Baugh -- Jim Davis -- Lisa A. Freeman -- Susan Staves -- John O'Brien -- Jacky Bratton -- Kristina Straub -- Misty G. Anderson -- Laura J. Rosenthal -- Julie A. Carlson -- Gillian Russell -- Michael Burden -- Helen Burke -- Daniel O'Quinn -- Jonathan Mulrooney.
9780521617772 (pbk)
Theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PN2593 / C25 2007
792.094209033