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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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London and New York :
Routledge ,
2019.
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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.