The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787- 832 :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the Road to the Stage
First Statement of Responsibility
by David Worrall.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(272 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Busby, Burletta and Barnwell: Music, Stage and Audience; 2 Dramatic Topicality: Robert Merry's The Magician No Conjurer and the 1791 Birmingham Riots; 3 Blackface and Black Mask: The Benevolent Planters versus Harlequin Mungo; 4 Belles Lettres to Burletta: William Henry Ireland as Fortune's Fool; 5 The Libertine Reclaimed: Burletta and the Cockney Presence; 6 The Royal Amphitheatre and Olympic Tom and Jerry Burlettas; 7 Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry and its Spin-Offs; Conclusion: The Canadian Tom and Jerry Murder; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.