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  1. Living with strangers
    bedsits and boarding houses in modern English life, literature and film
    Contributor: Briganti, Chiara (Publisher); Mezei, Kathy (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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  2. Everyone's theater
    literature and daily life in England, 1860-1914
    Author: Meeuwis, Michael
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "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... more

     

    "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 lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone's Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home--and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone's Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780472131471
    Subjects: Großbritannien; Theater; Alltag; Geschichte 1860-1914
    Other 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
    Scope: vi, 217 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-207

    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