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This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and...

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Main Author: Worrall, David (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Political History.
Theatre History.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Theater > History.
World politics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 266 pages)
ISBN:9780230801417
DOI:10.1057/9780230801417