Kerry Powell (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

Herausgeber: Powell, Kerry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the world of the Victorian theatre: the audiences, playwrights, actors, and music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521795364
• ISBN-10: 0521795362
• Artikelnr.: 22016507

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface Kerry Powell
Part I. Introduction: Before the curtain Nina Auerbach
Part II. Performance and Context: 1. Actors and acting Joseph W. Donohue Jr.
2. The show business economy and its discontents Tracy C. Davis
3. Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft: techniques and issues Russell Jackson
4. Music for the theatre: style and function in incidental music Michael Pisani
5. Victorian and Edwardian audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow
6. Performing identities: actresses and autobiography Mary Jean Corbett
Part III. Text and Context: 7. Comedy and farce Michael Booth
8. Encountering melodrama David Mayer
9. The Music Hall Jacky Bratton
10. Theatre of the 1890s: Breaking down the barriers Peter Raby
11. New theatres for a new drama Cary M. Mazer
12. The fallen woman on stage: maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female Sos Eltis
13. Reimagining the theatre: women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period Susan Carlson and Kerry Powell
14. The East End Theatre Heidi Holder
Index.