Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780–1830

✍ Scribed by Frederick Burwick (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Children on Stage: Idealized, Eroticized, Demonized....Pages 9-26
Moore and the Drama of Irish Protest....Pages 27-52
Zapolya: Coleridge and the Werewolves....Pages 53-69
Glenarvon on Stage: Impersonating Byron....Pages 71-86
Foscari: Mitford’s Dramaturgy of the Unspoken and Unexplained....Pages 87-100
Wilhelm Tell on the London Stage....Pages 101-116
Heroic Rebels and Highwaymen....Pages 117-139
London Crime: Executioners, Murderers, Detectives....Pages 141-172
Transpontine Theaters and Working-Class Audiences....Pages 173-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-319

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies;Literature, general;Theatre History;British and Irish Literature;North American Literature;Nineteenth-Century Literature