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The Performing Century

Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Tracy C. Davis
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  2. Peter Holland
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Part of the book series: Redefining British Theatre History (RBTH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: the Performing Society

    1. Introduction: the Performing Society

      • Tracy C. Davis, Peter Holland
      Pages 1-9

  3. Performance Occasions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Boxing Day

      • Jim Davis
      Pages 13-31

    3. What are Fairies For?

      • Tracy C. Davis
      Pages 32-59

    4. Communal Performances: Royal Ritual, Revolution and National Acts

      • Emily Allen
      Pages 60-79

    5. George Edwardes and Musical Comedy: the Transformation of London Theatre and Society, 1878—1914

      • Thomas Postlewait
      Pages 80-102

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-271
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About this book

This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be.

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'The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History is a fine collection of essays, and unlike some other such collections is likely to be of lasting value.' - Early Popular Visual Culture

'This collection of essays marks the distance travelled in the last two decades in scholarship on nineteenth-century theatre. Thirteen essays, collectively and individually, weave history and historiography together in what are uniformly exemplary demonstrations of 'new theatre history'. The volume also reminds us that it is in this formerly most maligned of theatre-historic fields that some of the most interesting, innovative and critically engaged work is being done.' - Katherine Newey, Theatre Research International

About the authors

EMILY ALLEN is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, USA JACKY BRATTON is Professor of Theatre and Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CATHERINE BURROUGHS is Professor of English at Wells College and Visiting Lecturer in English at Cornell University, USA GILLI BUSH-BAILEY is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JEFFREY N. COX is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA JIM DAVIS is Professor and Chair in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK HEIDI J. HOLDER is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA JANE MOODY is Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK MARK PHELAN is Lecturer in Drama at Queen's University, Belfast, UK THOMAS POSTLEWAIT is Professor of Theatre History at Ohio State University, USA RICHARD SCHOCH is Professor of the History of Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, UK EDWARD ZITER is Associate Professor of Theatre History in the Department of Drama at New York University, USA

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