This book-length study of British theatre historiography will interest all scholars of British theatre - not just historians - because of its emphasis on debates about disciplinary practice. The book's wide scope and deep archival research means that it will remain the standard work in the field for many years. It will become an essential point of reference for theatre scholars generally.
This book-length study of British theatre historiography will interest all scholars of British theatre - not just historians - because of its emphasis on debates about disciplinary practice. The book's wide scope and deep archival research means that it will remain the standard work in the field for many years. It will become an essential point of reference for theatre scholars generally.
Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Shakespeare's Victorian Stage (Cambridge, 1998), Not Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2002), and Queen Victoria and the Theatre of her Age (2004). He has also edited Great Shakespeareans: Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving (2011) and Victorian Theatrical Burlesques (2016). For a popular audience he wrote The Secrets of Happiness (2008), which has been translated into six languages. His books have been shortlisted for the Barnard Hewitt Award and the Theatre Book Prize. Schoch has received fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude. Early modern historiography 1. Restoration booksellers as theatre historians 2. Trivial discourses and persons not worth remembering 3. Gerard Langbaine and his progeny 4. John Downes and what the prompter saw 5. The biography of Biographia Dramatica Interlude. The rise of narrative historiography 6. The design of Theatrum Anglicanum 7. Histories of my own time 8. Edmond Malone and the search for theatrical intelligence 9. The anxieties of John Payne Collier Postlude. The art and science of nineteenth-century historiography Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude. Early modern historiography 1. Restoration booksellers as theatre historians 2. Trivial discourses and persons not worth remembering 3. Gerard Langbaine and his progeny 4. John Downes and what the prompter saw 5. The biography of Biographia Dramatica Interlude. The rise of narrative historiography 6. The design of Theatrum Anglicanum 7. Histories of my own time 8. Edmond Malone and the search for theatrical intelligence 9. The anxieties of John Payne Collier Postlude. The art and science of nineteenth-century historiography Bibliography Index.
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