Victorian theatricals : from menageries to melodrama / / Sara Hudston

• Autore: Hudston Sara
• Pubblicazione: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2000; ©2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.8
• Soggetto topico: English drama - 19th century; Amateur theater
• Altri autori: HudstonSara <1968->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction; THEATRICAL BEHAVIOUR; 1 Mansfield Park; 2 Vanity Fair; 3 Acting Proverbs; 4 The Sorrows of Satan; FUN AND FREAKS; 5 Nicholas Nickleby; 6 Far from the Madding Crowd; 7 An Evening at a Whitechapel Gaff; 8 The Enchanted Isle; 9 Jason in Colchis; 10 The Colleen Bawn; SOCIETY; 11 The Business of Matrimony; 12 The Factory Lad; 13 Society; 14 The Mikado; 15 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray; Notes on the Texts; Glossary of Victorian Stage Terms; Sources; Chronology
• Sommario/riassunto: A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890's the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890's.
• Titolo autorizzato: Victorian theatricals
• ISBN: 1-4081-4838-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787774203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Diaries, Letters and Essays