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 InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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