E-Books →The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 (PDF)

The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms ― not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime ― as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, it shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
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