David Roberts

Restoration Plays and Players

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

An accessible and engaging introduction to Restoration drama, this book looks at the texts, performances, playhouses and people of seventeenth-century theatre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781107617971
• ISBN-10: 1107617979
• Artikelnr.: 41607851

Autorenporträt

David Roberts is Professor of English and Dean of the Arts at Birmingham City University. He is the author of Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: The Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor (2013) and Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage (Cambridge, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award in 2011. He has also written many journal articles, including in Shakespeare Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
1. Regime change theatre
2. The life cycle of the Restoration play
3. Playwrights
4. Companies
5. Actors
6. Playhouses
7. Audiences and critics
8. Texts and publishers
9. Revivals and adaptations
Further reading
Timeline
Index.