The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805

The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805
Author: George Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521630525

This 2001 book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre

Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1626
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317398920

Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.

Glorious Causes

Glorious Causes
Author: Julia Swindells
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780198187295

Glorious Causes explores the politics of theatricality and the theatricality of politics in late Georgian Britain, at a time when the British nation can be described as a stage for reform. Political rhetoric during this period was characterized by a rich vocabulary, drawing on theatrical language and forms, from melodrama and tragedy, to comedy and burlesque. Most importantly, activity in the theaters themselves, often dismissed until recently as vulgar or sentimental, was highly charged with political dynamic and controversy, central to the drama of reform.

English Drama

English Drama
Author: Richard W. Bevis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317870913

What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.