The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Volume 2Jane Milling, Peter Thomson, Joseph Walter Donohue (Jr.) Volume One of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part One treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part Two focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part Three on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented. |
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Contents
List of illustrations | x |
General preface | xvi |
part i | lii |
the theatre from 1660 to 1800 | 3 |
Theatres and repertory | 53 |
Theatre and the female presence | 71 |
Theatre politics and morality | 103 |
a case study | 126 |
actors and their repertoires | 272 |
Theatres their architecture and their audiences | 292 |
Stage design from Loutherbourg to Poel | 309 |
Theatre and midVictorian society 18511870 | 331 |
Gendering Victorian theatre | 352 |
Popular entertainment 17761895 | 369 |
The new drama and the old theatre | 405 |
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