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Politics, performance and popular culture : theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain /
"This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Conceptualising performance, theorising politics
- 1. `To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England / Robert Poole
- 2. platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism / Mike Sanders
- 3. Bubbles of the day: the melodramatic and the pantomimic / Katherine Newey
- 4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and the legitimate/illegitimate divide / Caroline Radcliffe
- 5. Performance for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and contested didactics of the stage / Anselm Heinrich
- 6. Women's suffrage and theatricality / Sos Eltis
- II. Politics in performance
- 7. English pantomime and the Irish Question / Jill A. Sullivan
- 8. `Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet / Peter Yeandle
- 9. Drury Lane imperialism / Jeffrey Richards
- III. performance of politics
- 10. `Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 / Malcolm Chase
- 11. Sir Robert Peel as actor-dramatist / Richard Gaunt
- 12. performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage / Janice Norwood.