Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY [u.a.]
"Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of...
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"Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities"--Provided by publisher "Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities"--
Children on stage : idealised, demonised, eroticised -- The M.P. or the blue-stocking : Moore and Irish protest -- Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves -- Glenarvon : impersonating Lord Byron -- Foscari : Mitford's dramaturgy of the unspoken and unexplained -- Wilhelm Tell on the London stage -- Heroic rebels and highwaymen -- London crime : executioners, murderers, detectives -- Transpontine theatres and working-class audiences.
