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Routledge anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance /

"The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the premiere of John Philip Kemble's adaptation of Th...

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Další autoři: Straub, Kristina, Anderson, Misty G., O'Quinn, Daniel
Médium: Printed Book
Vydáno: London and New York : Routledge , 2019.
Témata:
Obsah:
  • Actress and royal mistress: "Pretty Witty Nell"
  • Magical transformations: A Queen and her many worlds
  • Betterton's last Lear
  • Soldiers abroad: The recruiting officer in Charleston, South Carolina
  • The pleasures of celebrity scandal: the rover's endurance
  • Opposition Cato: royal players at Leiceister House
  • An African weeps for the royal slave
  • Tom Thumb in Manhattan: Lewis Hallam's theatrical enterprise
  • The Chinese festival riots
  • National fantasy/wardrobe malfunction: royal command performance of Thomas Arne's Love in a Village
  • Ethnic spectacle: Charles Macklin in The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode
  • An actor's farewell
  • The re-coronation of George III: commemorating Handel
  • Imperial Pantomime: John O'Keefe and Philippe Jacques De Loutherbourg's Omai, or A trip around the world
  • Stealing Venice preserv'd.