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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814460803321

Autore

Davis Jim <1949->

Titolo

Reflecting the audience : London theatregoing, 1840-1880 / / Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001

ISBN

1-58729-402-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Studies in theatre history & culture

Altri autori (Persone)

EmeljanowVictor

Disciplina

792.0942109034

792/.09421/09034

Soggetti

Theater - England - London - History - 19th century

Theater audiences - England - London - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. The Surrey-Siders; 1. The Surrey and the Victoria Theatres; Part Two. Orientalism and Social Condescension; 2. The Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel; 3. The Britannia Theatre; Part Three. Myth and Nineteenth-Century Theatre Audiences; 4. Sadler's Wells Theatre; 5. The Queen's/Prince of Wales's Theatre; Part Four.""Theatric Tourists"" and the West End; 6. The West End; 7. A National Drama:A National Theatre and the Case of Drury Lane; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies:  the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century British  theatre audiences. In an attempt to bring some order to the enormous  amount of available primary material, Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow  focus on London from 1840, immediately prior to the deregulation of that  city's theatres, to 1880, when the Metropolitan Board of Works assumed  responsibility for their licensing. In a further attempt to manage their  material, they concentrate chapter by chapter on seven representative  theatres from four areas: