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 .

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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.

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Theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.

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