Richard Schoch (Queen's University Belfast)

Gebundenes Buch

Writing the History of the British Stage

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9781107166929
• ISBN-10: 1107166926
• Artikelnr.: 45153387