Theatric Revolution
Drama, Censorship, and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 May 2006
- ISBN 9780199276752
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 223x146x29 mm
- Weight 632 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book uncovers the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with freedom of expression. Theatric Revolution examines this censorship and those who struggled against it.
MoreLong description:
The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts. Theatric Revolution redresses the balance by considering the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with the freedom of expression. Looking beyond the Royal theatres at Covent Garden and Drury Lane which have dominated most recent accounts of the period, this book examines the day-to-day workings of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and shows that radicalized groups of individuals continuously sought ways to evade the suppression of both playhouses and dramatic texts.
Incorporating a wealth of new research, David Worrall reveals the centrality of theatre within busy networks of print culture, politics of all casts, elite and popular cultures, and metropolitan and provincial audiences. Ranging from the drawing room of Queen Caroline's private theatrical to the song-and-supper dens of Soho and radical free and easies, Theatric Revolution deals with the complex vitality of Romantic theatrical culture, and its intense politicization at all levels. This fascinating new study will be of great value to cultural historians, as well as to literary and theatre scholars.
Worrall's case studies argue that Georgian politics were envisioned in theatrical terms, and conducted through theatrical forms, and illuminates an age repeatedly gusted by hope, fear and contradiction.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Customs and Practices: The Regulation of the Theatres
The Suppression of the Royalty Theatre, London East End
Theatrical Oligarchies: The Role of the Examiner of Plays
Theatrical Subcultures: Fireworks, Freemasonry, and Philip De Loutherbourg
Political Microcultures: The Censorship of Thomas Dibdin's Two Farmers
The Theatricalization of British Popular Culture: Queen Caroline and the Royal Coburg Theatre
The Theatricalization of British Popular Culture: A General Historical Anthropology
Political Dramas: Harlequin Negro and Plots And Placemen
The Theatre of Crime: The Mysterious Murder and The Murdered Maid
The Theatre of Subversion: Carlile's Rotunda and Captain Swing
Conclusion
