LEADER 03242nam 22004932 450 001 9910154850403321 005 20160912145326.0 010 $a1-316-73324-6 010 $a1-316-73131-6 010 $a1-316-74482-5 010 $a1-316-74675-5 010 $a1-316-74868-5 010 $a1-316-75447-2 010 $a1-316-71146-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000013686 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316711460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4620926 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000013686 100 $a20160202d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting the history of the British stage $e1660-1900 /$fRichard Schoch$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2016). 311 $a1-107-16692-6 311 $a1-316-61776-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prelude. Early modern historiography; 1. Restoration booksellers as theatre historians; 2. Trivial discourses and persons not worth remembering; 3. Gerard Langbaine and his progeny; 4. John Downes and what the prompter saw; 5. The biography of Biographia Dramatica; Interlude. The rise of narrative historiography; 6. The design of Theatrum Anglicanum; 7. Histories of my own time; 8. Edmond Malone and the search for theatrical intelligence; 9. The anxieties of John Payne Collier; Postlude. The art and science of nineteenth-century historiography; Bibliography; Index. 330 $aThis is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. In this compelling revisionist study, Richard Schoch reclaims the deep history of British theatre history, valorizing the usually overlooked scholarship undertaken by antiquarians, booksellers, bibliographers, journalists and theatrical insiders, none of whom considered themselves to be professional historians. Drawing together deep archival research, close readings of historical texts from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and an awareness of contemporary debates about disciplinary practice, Schoch overturns received interpretations of British theatre historiography and shows that the practice - and the diverse practitioners - of theatre history were far more complicated and far more sophisticated than we had realised. His book is a landmark contribution to how theatre historians today can understand their own history. 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$xHistoriography 615 0$aTheater$xHistoriography. 676 $a792.0941 686 $aDRA003000$2bisacsh 700 $aSchoch$b Richard W.$0620943 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154850403321 996 $aWriting the history of the British stage$92581870 997 $aUNINA