Richard Schoch

Writing the History of the British Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 405
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617762
• ISBN-10: 1316617769
• Artikelnr.: 54640413

Autorenporträt

Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Shakespeare's Victorian Stage (Cambridge, 1998), Not Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2002), and Queen Victoria and the Theatre of her Age (2004). He has also edited Great Shakespeareans: Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving (2011) and Victorian Theatrical Burlesques (2016). For a popular audience he wrote The Secrets of Happiness (2008), which has been translated into six languages. His books have been shortlisted for the Barnard Hewitt Award and the Theatre Book Prize. Schoch has received fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prelude. Early modern historiography
1. Restoration booksellers as theatre historians
2. Trivial discourses and persons not worth remembering
3. Gerard Langbaine and his progeny
4. John Downes and what the prompter saw
5. The biography of Biographia Dramatica
Interlude. The rise of narrative historiography
6. The design of Theatrum Anglicanum
7. Histories of my own time
8. Edmond Malone and the search for theatrical intelligence
9. The anxieties of John Payne Collier
Postlude. The art and science of nineteenth-century historiography
Bibliography
Index.