Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age

ISBN-13: 9781403932976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 235 str.

Richard W. Schoch

Opis

A fresh and intimate portrait of Queen Victoria 'at the play'. Through Victoria's diary, artwork and correspondence we see her as enraptured spectator, bountiful patron and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high-spirited and unruly; a woman who delights in gory melodramas and circus acts. Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age gives readers a deeply personal account of her lifelong devotion to the stage. It will appeal to anyone interested in monarchy's place in popular culture.

Recenzje

'This delightful, charmingly illustrated account of Queen Victoria's long-lasting and eventful love affair with the theatre offers no less entertainment than sociological illumination. No one is better fitted to tell this story than Richard Schoch, and he does with deep scholarship, verve and flair.' - Professor Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Centre

'...amiable study of Queen Victoria's theatre-going.' - John Bowen, Times Literary Supplement

'Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age is a little gem of beautifully researched detail, full of quotations from original sources; the surprising, the thought provoking, the amusing and the bizarre'. - Charlotte Zeepvat, Royalty Digest

'As with Schoch's previous excavations of Victorian theatricality, this is a very enjoyable, red-plush study.' - Plays International

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue PART I: AT HOME Paying A Visit to the Crown En Amateur Our Little Theatre Hush Money Suspended, not Destroyed PART II: IN LONDON At the Play The Lions Repaid All Royally to Play a Native Part Little People (Good and Bad) Vulgar Victorian Trash PART III: THE QUEEN'S EXAMPLE The Queen is Alarmed Arise, Sir - - -! Refuge at the Foot of the Throne Epilogue: A Giddy Whirl of Theatre-going Bibliography Index

O autorze

RICHARD W. SCHOCH is Reader in Drama and Theatre History at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous works include Not Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Victorian Stage, and Victorian Theatrical Burlesques. The recipient of fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Leverhulme Trust, and The American Society for Theatre Research, he has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize and the Barnard Hewitt Award.