وصف الكتاب | This innovative collection, now available in paperback for the first time, brings together a group of leading theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries are multi-faceted, ranging from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the investigation of playhouse finances, from the performance representation of Othello and Oroonoko to the political resonances of adultery comedy, and from Garrick's vocal art to the interpretation of contemporary paintings of actors and actresses. |
عن المؤلف | MICHAEL CORDNER is Ken Dixon Professor of Drama at the University of York, UK. He has published editions of plays by Farquhar, Etherege, Vanbrugh, Dryden, Lee, Otway, Southerne and Sheridan, and his most recent critical publications concern the relationship between Shakespearean editing and performance and English stage comedy. He also frequently directs plays from the early modern repertoire.
PETER HOLLAND is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. From 1997 to 2002 he was Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. In 2007-08 he is President of the Shakespeare Association of America. |