Writing the history of the British stage, 1660-1900 /
"This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. In this compelling revisionist study, Richard Schoch reclaims the deep history of B...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: On early modern historiography and the inconceivability of theatre history
- Restoration booksellers as theatre historians
- Trivial discourses and persons not worth remembering
- Gerard Langbaine and his progeny
- John Downes and what the prompter saw
- The biography of Biographia Dramatica
- Interlude: On the rise of narrative historiography
- The design of Theatrum Anglicanum
- Histories of my own time
- Edmond Malone and the search for theatrical intelligence
- The anxieties of John Payne Collier
- Postlude: On the art and science of nineteenth-century historiography.