{"product_id":"the-edwardian-theatre-essays-on-performance-and-the-stage-hardback-9780521453752","title":"The Edwardian Theatre; Essays on Performance and the Stage (Hardback) 9780521453752","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Edwardian Theatre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Performance and the Stage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era which still has resonance today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Richard Booth (Author), Joel H. Kaplan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521453752, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 March 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"While these essays vary in focus and originality of research, they may be excitingly crossread to discern the contours of the dominant--usually economic and sexual--themes which claim for this decade the distinction of a separate study.\"    Veronica Kelly, Victorian Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude towards the Edwardians and their world, the essays in this collection take as their provenance broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing upon the economics of theatre management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical comedy, variety theatre, and the cinema. Individual chapters also offer fresh insights into key aspects of the Edwardian stage such as a definition of the theatre of the time, gender play and role reversal in the Edwardian music hall, as well as issues related to politics and the suffrage movement.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Joel H. Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e 1. What is Edwardian theatre? Joseph Donohue\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Naughty but Nice': musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892–1914 Peter Bailey\u003cbr\u003e 3. Varieties of life: the making of the Edwardian music hall Dave Russell\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beating the bounds: gender play and role reversal in the Edwardian music hall J. S. Bratton\u003cbr\u003e 5. Edwardian management and the structures of industrial capitalism Tracy C. Davis\u003cbr\u003e 6. The New Drama and the new audience Dennis Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Towards an ideal spectator: theatregoing and the Edwardian critic Victor Emeljanow\u003cbr\u003e 8. Suffrage critics and political action: a feminist agenda Sheila Stowell\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'A woman of genius': Rebecca West at the theatre John Stokes\u003cbr\u003e 10. The East End Jim Davis\u003cbr\u003e 11. Changing horses in mid-ocean: The Whip in Britain and America David Mayer\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297220808984,"sku":"9780521453752","price":55.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-edwardian-theatre-essays-on-performance-and-the-stage-hardback-9780521453752","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}