The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre / / edited by Kerry Powell [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 792/.0942/09034
• Soggetto topico: Theater - England - History - 20th century; English drama - 19th century - History and criticism; English drama - 20th century - History and criticism; Theater - England - History - 19th century
• Persona (resp. second.): PowellKerry
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Before the curtain / Nina Auerbach -- Actors and acting / Joseph Donohue -- The show business economy and its discontents / Tracy C. Davis -- Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft : techniques and issues / Russell Jackson -- Music for the theatre : style and function in incidental music / Michael Pisani -- Victorian and Edwardian audiences / Jim Davis, Victor Emeljanow -- Performing identities : actresses and autobiography / Mary Jean Corbett -- Comedy and farce / Michael R. Booth -- Encountering melodrama / David Mayer -- The music hall / Jacky Bratton -- Theatre of the 1890s : breaking down the barriers / Peter Raby -- New theatres for a new drama / Cary M. Mazer -- The fallen woman on stage : maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female / Sos Eltis -- Reimagining the theatre : women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period / Susan Carlson, Kerry Powell -- The East-End Theatre / Heidi J. Holder.
• Sommario/riassunto: This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the frame of Victorian and Edwardian culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine specific aspects of performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audiences themselves; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender are also explored. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce and melodrama, while other essays bring forward new topics and approaches that cross the boundaries of traditional investigation, including analysis of the economics of theatre and of the theatricality of personal identity.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Cambridge Companion to Victorian & Edwardian Theatre
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre
• ISBN: 1-139-81640-3; 0-511-99954-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205072703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.