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Everyone's theater : literature and daily life in England, 1860-1914 /

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"Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late-Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass...

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Main Author: Meeuwis, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Theater audiences > Great Britain.
English drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
English drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century.
English drama.
Manners and customs.
Theater and society.
Theater audiences.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Representative government : the "problem play" and the making of social liberalism
  • The form of fitting in : standardizing emotion and narrative in the Victorian popular drama
  • The "theatre royal back drawing-room" : professionalizing domestic entertainment in Victorian acting manuals
  • Our Indian way in "that niece from India"
  • The familiar theater of Victorian diarists
  • Umbrellas of state : amateur performance in the India office records
  • Conclusion : Victorian frames of mind and body.