ENGLISH

Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832: The Road to the Stage

By David Worrall

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230518028, 9780230518025, 9780230801417
Open Library ID
OL10194403M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
867 kB (888038 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Edition
First Edition
Pages
272\273
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and ''spouting clubs.'' Using a range of neglected plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the disruptive vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.

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