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Author:

Burwick, Frederick.

Title:

Playing to the crowd : London popular theater, 1780-1830 / Frederick Burwick.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

319 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Theater--London--London--History--18th century.
Theater--London--London--History--19th century.
Ethnic theater--London--London--History--18th century.
Ethnic theater--London--London--History--19th century.
Theater audiences--London--London--History--18th century.
Theater audiences--London--London--History--19th century.
London (England)--Social life and customs--18th century.
London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[255]-289) and index.

Contents:

Children on stage : idealised, demonised, eroticised -- The M.P. or the blue-stocking : Moore and Irish protest -- Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves -- Glenarvon : impersonating Lord Byron -- Foscari : Mitford's dramaturgy of the unspoken and unexplained -- Wilhelm Tell on the London stage -- Heroic rebels and highwaymen -- London crime : executioners, murderers, detectives -- Transpontine theatres and working-class audiences.

Summary:

"Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.

ISBN:

0230116868 (hardback)
9780230116863 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711049321

LCCN:

2011018666

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)