Description
Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots of much modern drama are to be found in the experiments and extravagancies of the nineteenth-century stage. The essays collected here cover a range of topics within the world of Victorian theatre, from particular actors to particular theatres; from farce to Byron’s tragedies, plus a separate section about Shakespearean productions.
Table of Contents
Essays on Nineteenth Century British Theatre, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Introduction, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Chapter 102 Members of the Symposium, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Part 1 The Theatre, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Chapter 1 A Theatre for the People, Clive Barker; Chapter 2 Theatre Royal, Hull; or, The Vanishing Circuit, Donald Roy; Chapter 3 The Career of Charles Kean: A Financial Report, M. Glen Wilson; Chapter 4 Staging Mid-Victorian Drama: Four Seasons at Pullman’s Summer Palace, Paul Wadleigh; Part 2 The Drama, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Chapter 5 The Early Career of George Colman the Younger, Peter Thomson; Chapter 6 Lord Byron’s Historical Tragedies, William Ruddick; Chapter 7 Early Victorian Farce: Dionysus Domesticated, Michael R. Booth; Chapter 8 George Henry Lewes as Playwright: A Register of Pieces, John Hopkin; Chapter 9 The First Production of The Importance of being Earnest: A Proposal for a Reconstructive Study, Joseph W. Jr. Donohue; Chapter 10 Dr Hennequin and the Well-Made Play, Arthur Colby Sprague; Part 3 Shakespearean Production in the Nineteenth Century, Kenneth Richards, Peter Thomson; Chapter 11 The Taming of the Shrew at the Haymarket Theatre, 1844 and 1847, Jan McDonald; Chapter 12 On Looking at The Merchant of Venice, W. Moelwyn Merchant; Chapter 13 Samuel Phelps’s Production of All’s Well that Ends Well, Kenneth Richards;
