TY - BOOK AU - Moody,Jane AU - O'Quinn,Daniel TI - The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 SN - 9780521617772 (pbk) AV - PN2593 C25 2007 U1 - 792.094209033 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Theater KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century N1 - P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean; Peter Thomson --; Dictating to the empire; Jane Moody --; Scenography and technology; Christopher Baugh --; Spectatorship; Jim Davis --; Social life of eighteenth-century comedy; Lisa A. Freeman --; Tragedy; Susan Staves --; Pantomime; John O'Brien --; Romantic melodrama; Jacky Bratton --; Making of an English audience; Kristina Straub --; Women playwrights; Misty G. Anderson --; Entertaining women; Laura J. Rosenthal --; Race and profit in English theatre; Julie A. Carlson --; Private theatricals; Gillian Russell --; Opera in the London theatres; Michael Burden --; Acting in the periphery; Helen Burke --; Theatre and empire; Daniel O'Quinn --; Reading theatre, 1730-1830; Jonathan Mulrooney ER -