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Players, Playwrights, Playhouses

Investigating Performance, 1660–1800

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  • © 2007

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  1. Michael Cordner
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  2. Peter Holland
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Part of the book series: Redefining British Theatre History (RBTH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Expanding Horizons

    1. Introduction: Expanding Horizons

      • Michael Cordner
      Pages 1-6

  3. Drama, Theatre, and History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Theatre History, 1660–1800: Aims, Materials, Methodology

      • Robert D. Hume
      Pages 9-44

    3. Sleeping with the Enemy: Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads and the Political Comedy of Adultery

      • Michael Cordner
      Pages 45-77

    4. Shadowing Theatrical Change

      • Paula R. Backscheider
      Pages 78-100

    5. Reading Theatre History from Account Books

      • Judith Milhous
      Pages 101-131

  4. Controlling the Theatre

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Jeremy Collier and the Politics of Theatrical Representation

      • Lisa A. Freeman
      Pages 135-151

    3. Reconsidering Theatrical Regulation in the Long Eighteenth Century

      • Matthew J. Kinservik
      Pages 152-171

  5. Theatre beyond London

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Theatre for Nothing

      • Michael Dobson
      Pages 175-188

    3. Mixed Marriage: Sheridan, Macklin, and the Hybrid Audience

      • Susan Cannon Harris
      Pages 189-212

    4. Country Matters: Irish ‘Waggery’ and the Irish and British Theatrical Traditions

      • Helen Burke
      Pages 213-228

  6. Representations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Universality, Early Modernity, and the Contingencies of Representing Race

      • Mita Choudhury
      Pages 231-247

    3. Hearing the Dead: the Sound of David Garrick

      • Peter Holland
      Pages 248-270

    4. The Visuality of the Theatre

      • Shearer West
      Pages 271-293

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 294-300
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About this book

This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy.

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'...a wealth of up to date research and information on 150 years of theatre history.' - Word Matters (The Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech& Drama)

About the authors

PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER is Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University, USA HELEN BURKE is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA MITA CHOUDHURY is Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet, USA MICHAEL DOBSON is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK LISA A. FREEMAN is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA SUSAN CANNON HARRIS is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA ROBERT D. HUME is Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature at Penn State University, USA MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA JUDITH MILHOUS is Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, USA SHEARER WEST is Professor of Art History and Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK

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