The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance

Buch | Softcover

550 Seiten

2011
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-900-7 (ISBN)

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Provides a representative sample of plays and performances – from a range of genres, styles, and formats – that were popular on the nineteenth century British stage. The introduction explores the ways in which different plays and dramatic conventions related to each other, and how audiences understood these conventions.

This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University. She has published widely on performance studies and the nineteenth-century theatre.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Repertoire

George Colman, the Younger, The Africans; or, War, Love, and Duty (1808)

Col. Ralph Hamilton, Elphi Bey; or, The Arab’s Faith (1817)

James Smith and R.B. Peake, Trip to America (1824)

George Henry Lewes, The Game of Speculation (1851)

Christy’s Minstrels (1857-61)

Programme with Musical Selections

William Brough, The Nigger’s Opera; or, The Darkie That Walked in Her Sleep(1861)

William Brough, The Gypsy Maid (1861)

Dion Boucicault, The Relief of Lucknow (1862)

T.W. Robertson, Ours (1866)

B.C. Stephenson and Alfred Cellier, Dorothy (1886)

Joseph Addison, Alice in Wonderland; or, Harlequin, the Poor Apprentice, the Pretty Belle,and the Fairy Ring (1886)

J.M. Barrie, Ibsen’s Ghost; or, Toole Up-to-Date (1891)

Paul Potter, Trilby (1895)

Netta Syrett, The Finding of Nancy (1902)

Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-55111-900-5 / 1551119005
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-900-7 / 9781551119007
Zustand	Neuware