A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Marx, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in expanding global networks.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1800 to 1920. Highly illustrated with 51 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350135468
• Artikelnr.: 57408914

Autorenporträt

Peter W. Marx is Professor at the Institute for Media Culture and Theater, University of Cologne, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor's Acknowledgements Introduction: Cartographing the Long Nineteenth Century Peter Marx
University of Cologne
Germany 1 Institutional Framework: Britain and Germany 1800 to 1920 Anselm Heinrich
University of Glasgow
UK 2 Social Functions: The Social Function of Theatre Jim Davis
University of Warwick
UK 3 Sexuality and Gender Laurence Senelick
Tufts University
USA 4 The Environment of Theatre Tobias Becker
German Historical Institute London
UK 5 Circulation: Theatrical Mobility and its Professionalization in the Nineteenth Century Nic Leonhardt
University of Cologne
Germany and Stanca Scholz-Cionca
University of Trier
Germany 6 Interpretations: The Interpretation of Theatre Peter W. Marx
University of Cologne
Germany 7 Communities of Production Kathleen M. Gough
the University of Vermont
USA
Zoltan Imre
Eötvös Loránd University
Hungary
Introduction by Peter W. Marx
University of Cologne
Germany 8 Repertoire and Genres Christopher Balme
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Germany 9 Technologies of Performance Sophie Nield
Royal Holloway
University of London
UK 10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory Derek Miller
Harvard University
USA Notes Bibliography Index