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Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage
David Worrall
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hardcover. Worrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history. Num Pages: 311 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, ... Read more
By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic commercial theatrical marketplace. The book presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into performance history. It argues that the cultural meaning of drama changes with every change in the performance location. This theoretical model is applied to a wide range of archival materials including censors' manuscripts, theatre ledger books, performance schedules, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
Number of Pages
311
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107043602
SKU
V9781107043602
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99-14
About David Worrall
David Worrall is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures, 1773–1832 (2006), The Politics of Romantic Theatricality: The Road to the Stage (2007) and Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment (2007). He has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, Lewis Walpole Library, ... Read more
Reviews for Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage
'Quirky, original, entertaining … liberally packed with fascinating material viewed from unusual perspectives.' The Times Literary Supplement 'This book brings groundbreaking research to bear on its discussion of actors, performances, audiences, and playhouses in Britain in the 1780s and 1790s … [a] rich and fascinating study …' Helen M. Burke, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research