Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800 (Redefining British Theatre History)

by Michael Cordner (Editor), ProfessorPeterHolland (Editor)

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2010
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This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.

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This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 28 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0230250572
ISBN 13: 9780230250574
Book Overview: PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER is Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University, USA HELEN BURKE is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA MITA CHOUDHURY is Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet, USA MICHAEL DOBSON is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK LISA A. FREEMAN is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA SUSAN CANNON HARRIS is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA ROBERT D. HUME is Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature at Penn State University, USA MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA JUDITH MILHOUS is Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, USA SHEARER WEST is Professor of Art History and Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK

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'...a wealth of up to date research and information on 150 years of theatre history.' - Word Matters (The Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech& Drama)

Author Bio

PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER is Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University, USA HELEN BURKE is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA MITA CHOUDHURY is Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet, USA MICHAEL DOBSON is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK LISA A. FREEMAN is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA SUSAN CANNON HARRIS is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA ROBERT D. HUME is Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature at Penn State University, USA MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA JUDITH MILHOUS is Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, USA SHEARER WEST is Professor of Art History and Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK