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Drama --- Theatrical science --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Theater --- History
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This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international scholars in the long eighteenth century, offering lively and original insights into the world of the stage, its most influential playwrights and the professional lives of celebrated performers such as James Quin, George Anne Bellamy, John Philip Kemble, Dora Jordan, Fanny Abington and Sarah Siddons. The volume includes essential chapters about eighteenth-century acting, production and audiences, important surveys of key theatrical forms such as tragedy, comedy, melodrama and pantomime as well as a range of exciting thematic essays on subjects such as private theatricals, 'black' theatre and the representation of empire.
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"Ecrits par d'éminents universitaires internationaux, les chapitres de ce volume couvrent des sujets tels que les acteurs et les interprètes, les dramaturges et les interprètes, y compris la vie professionnelle d'artistes célèbres tels que James Quin et Sarah Siddons, et les grandes formes théâtrales de l'époque comme la comédie, le mélodrame et la pantomime. Première partie : « De Garrick à Kean » ; deuxième partie : « La vie sociale » ; troisième partie : « La galerie du pied » ; quatrième partie : « Théâtre privé 15 » ; cinquième partie : « Théâtre de lecture ».." Traduit de Bibliographic Sélection n° 81 - ITI.
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