Theatric Revolution : Drama, Censorship, and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832.
The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts. Theatric Revolution redresses the balance by considering the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts. Theatric Revolution redresses the balance by considering the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with the freedom of expression. Looking beyond the Royal theatres at Covent Garden and Drury Lane which have dominated most recent accounts of the period, this bookexamines the day-to-day workings of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and shows that radicalized groups of individua. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191534904 0191534900 9780191707643 0191707643 9780199276752 0199276757 |