Sheridan to Robertson : A Study of the Nineteenth-Century London Stage /
Watson, Ernest Bradlee
Sheridan to Robertson : A Study of the Nineteenth-Century London Stage / Ernest Bradlee Watson. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (485 p.) : 19 illustrations
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Chapter I. LONDON LIFE AND THE STAGE -- Chapter II. THEATRICAL MONOPOLY -- Chapter III. THE LONDON THEATRES -- Chapter IV. HISTRIONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAYHOUSE -- Chapter V. THE COMMAND OF AUDIENCES -- Chapter VI. THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT: CAUSES OF FAILURE -- Chapter VII. EARLY MANAGEMENTS: KEMBLE AND ELLISTON -- Chapter VIII. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: MACREADY -- Chapter IX. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: VESTRIS -- Chapter X. CONSERVATISM AND TRANSITION: WEBSTER AND BUCKSTONE, PHELPS AND THE YOUNGER KEAN -- Chapter XI. THE REVOLUTIONISTS: FECHTER AND BOUCICAULT -- Chapter XII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE SCENE -- Chapter XIII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING OF THE POETIC DRAMA -- Chapter XIV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE EARLY COMIC ACTING -- Chapter XV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING IN BURLESQUE AND THE NEWER COMEDY -- Chapter XVI. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE ACTING OF MELODRAMA -- Chapter XVII. THE ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY BEGINNINGS -- Chapter XVIII. ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY: AT THE PRINCE OF WALES’S -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674599239 9780674599932
10.4159/harvard.9780674599932 doi
English drama.
Theater, Tanz.
Theater.
Theaters.
Actors -- England.
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Theater -- England -- London.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PN2596.L6 / W38 2014
792.09421
Sheridan to Robertson : A Study of the Nineteenth-Century London Stage / Ernest Bradlee Watson. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (485 p.) : 19 illustrations
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Chapter I. LONDON LIFE AND THE STAGE -- Chapter II. THEATRICAL MONOPOLY -- Chapter III. THE LONDON THEATRES -- Chapter IV. HISTRIONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAYHOUSE -- Chapter V. THE COMMAND OF AUDIENCES -- Chapter VI. THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT: CAUSES OF FAILURE -- Chapter VII. EARLY MANAGEMENTS: KEMBLE AND ELLISTON -- Chapter VIII. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: MACREADY -- Chapter IX. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: VESTRIS -- Chapter X. CONSERVATISM AND TRANSITION: WEBSTER AND BUCKSTONE, PHELPS AND THE YOUNGER KEAN -- Chapter XI. THE REVOLUTIONISTS: FECHTER AND BOUCICAULT -- Chapter XII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE SCENE -- Chapter XIII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING OF THE POETIC DRAMA -- Chapter XIV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE EARLY COMIC ACTING -- Chapter XV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING IN BURLESQUE AND THE NEWER COMEDY -- Chapter XVI. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE ACTING OF MELODRAMA -- Chapter XVII. THE ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY BEGINNINGS -- Chapter XVIII. ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY: AT THE PRINCE OF WALES’S -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674599239 9780674599932
10.4159/harvard.9780674599932 doi
English drama.
Theater, Tanz.
Theater.
Theaters.
Actors -- England.
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Theater -- England -- London.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PN2596.L6 / W38 2014
792.09421