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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

 
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Short description:

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances to encourage an understanding of print as material object as well as theatrical medium, emphasising the immediacy - and changeability - of theatre during the long eighteenth century.

Long description:

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795.


This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews, portraits, advertisements, and cast lists. By privileging event over publication, this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century.


Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time, The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique, much-needed resource for students of theatre.?

Table of Contents:

Introduction


1. Actress and Royal Mistress: "Pretty Witty Nell"


2. Magical Transformations: A Queen and her Many Worlds


3. Betterton's Last Lear


4. Soldiers Abroad: The Recruting Officer in Charleston, South Carolina


5. The Pleasures of Celebrity Scandal: The Rover's Endurance


6.Opposition Cato: Royal Players at Leiceister House


7. An African Weeps for Oroonoko: The Royal Slave


8. Tom Thumb in Manhattan: Lewis Hallam?s Theatrical Enterprise


9. The Chinese Festival Riots


10. National Fantasy/Wardrobe Malfunction: Royal Command Performance of Thomas Arne?s Love in a Village


11. Ethnic Spectacle: Charles Macklin in The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode


12. An Actor's Farewell: Garrick in The Wonder


13. The Re-Coronation of George III: Commemorating Handel


14. Imperial Pantomime: John O?Keefe and Philippe Jacques De Loutherbourg's Omai, or A Trip Around the World


15. Stealing Venice Preserv?d