An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume One - From the Romans to the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780367580407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 638 str.

Robert Leach

Opis

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. This first volume spans from the earliest forms of performance to the popular theatres of high society and the Enlightenment.

Spis treści

Prologue : The Romans in Britain  Part 1 : Theatre Before Theatres  Interlude : The Queen’s Men  Part 2 : Open Air Public Theatres  Interlude : The boy companies of St Paul’s and the Chapel Royal  Part 3 : Cavalier Theatre  Interlude : Dramatick Opera  Part 4 : Theatre and Bourgeois Society  Interlude : Eighteenth Century Amateur Theatricals  Part 5 : Theatre and the Enlightenment  Interlude : Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee

 

O autorze

Robert Leach has been schoolteacher, political activist, teacher of acting, freelance theatre director and academic. Not only has he taught at Birmingham, Edinburgh and Cumbria universities, he has also acted professionally in Britain and the USA, directed plays in Russia and Britain and published five volumes of poetry.