The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell

By Kerry Powell

This 2004 spouse is designed for readers drawn to the production, construction and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, either in its personal time and at the modern degree. the amount opens with a short assessment and advent surveying the theatre of the time by means of an essay contextualizing the theatre in the body of Victorian and Edwardian tradition as a complete. Succeeding chapters study particular elements of functionality, creation, and theatre, together with the track, the actors, stagecraft and the audiences themselves; performs and playwriting and problems with classification and gender also are explored. Chapters additionally care for comedy, farce and melodrama, whereas different essays convey ahead new themes and techniques that go the bounds of conventional research, together with research of the economics of theatre and of the theatricality of non-public identity.

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