The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870

ISBN-13: 9781316620830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str.

Jacky Bratton

Opis

Bratton presents a completely new history of the dynamic beginnings of the modern world of London West End theatre.

Recenzje

'Jacky Bratton's monograph provides a revisionist account of the way in which the West End developed as a theatrical centre from 1830 to 1870, breaking with past histories that have been dismissive of the exuberant, iconoclastic, and disruptive nature of what was happening during these years … this is an important book, opening up new ways in which to examine the making of Victorian theatre and full of new insights to be absorbed and sometimes challenged.' Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Mapping: 1. Why the West End?; 2. The Era: hierarchies, seriousness and the organ of the profession; 3. Bohemian domesticity: the city of the mind; Part II. Making: 4. Performing the crisis; 5. The shaping of West End management; 6. Showtime; Conclusion; Bibliography.