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

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burwick, Frederick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:
Theater > England > London > History > 18th century.
Theater > England > London > History > 19th century.
Ethnic theater > England > London > History > 18th century.
Ethnic theater > England > London > History > 19th century.
Theater audiences > England > London > History > 18th century.
Theater audiences > England > London > History > 19th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 18th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Table of 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.