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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Staging history
    sub title: 1780-1840
  name:
    name part: Burden, Michael
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Heller, Wendy
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hicks, Jonathan
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lockhart, Ellen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimilies, music ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical works in order to cast light on their role in shaping a popular interpretation of historical events. The medium of drama ensured that the telling of these histories, the French Revolution and the American War of Independence, for example, or the travels of Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus, were brought to life through words, music and spectacle. The scale of the productions was often ambitious, a water tank with model floating ships was deployed at Sadler's Wells for the staging of the Siege of Gibraltar, and another production on the same theme used live cannons which set fire to the vessels in each performance. This illustrated volume, researched and written by experts in the field, explores contemporary theatrical documents (playbills, set designs and musical scores) and images (paintings, prints and illustrations) in seeking to explain what counted as history and historical truth for the writers, performers and audiences of these plays. In doing so it debates the peculiar contradictions of staging history and re-examines some spectacular box office hits.
  note: edited by Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, Jonathan Hicks and Ellen Lockhart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Historical drama
    temporal: 17th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Historical drama
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Historical drama
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: PN1872 .S73 2016
  classification: 940.2
  identifier: 9781851244560
  identifier: 1851244565
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 160804
    record change date: 20170926151018.0
    record identifier: in00003737593