The Routledge anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance /

"The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the premiere of John Philip Kemble's adaptation of Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Anderson, Misty G., 1967- (Editor), O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962- (Editor), Straub, Kristina, 1951- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Subjects:	1600-1799 English drama > 18th century > History and criticism. English drama > Restoration, 1660-1700 > History and criticism. Theater > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English drama > Restoration. English drama. Theater. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Actress and royal mistress: "Pretty Witty Nell" in Secret love
Magical transformations: A Queen and her many worlds
Betterton's last Lear
Soldiers abroad: The recruiting officer in Charleston, South Carolina
The pleasures of celebrity scandal: The rover's endurance
Opposition Cato: royal players at Leiceister House
An African weeps for Oroonoko: the royal slave
Tom Thumb in Manhattan: Lewis Hallam's theatrical enterprise
The Chinese festival riots
National fantasy/wardrobe malfunction: royal command performance of Thomas Arne's Love in a Village
Ethnic spectacle: Charles Macklin in The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode
An actor's farewell : Garrick in The wonder
The re-coronation of George III: commemorating Handel
Imperial Pantomime: John O'Keefe and Philippe Jacques De Loutherbourg's Omai, or A trip around the world
Stealing Venice preserv'd.