The Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.
| Other author | Moody, Jane, 1967-2011. |
| Other author | O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
| Description | xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature. ^A326514 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780521852371 |
| ISBN | 0521852374 |
| ISBN | 9780521617772 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521617774 (pbk.) |