Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire

Name: Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
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ISBN: 9780521034425

ISBN-10: 0521034426

ISBN-13: 9780521034425

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard Foulkes

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During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeares plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but Shakespeares plays were performed up and down the land from the fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the expanding industrial conurbations to the north. British actors travelled the world to perform Shakespeares plays, while foreign actors regarded success in London as the ultimate seal of approval. In this book, Richard Foulkes explores the political and social…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The hero as actor: William Charles Macready



Equerries and equestrians: Phelps, Kean and Astley's



A babel of bardolaters: the 1864 tercentenary



Made in Manchester: Charles Calvert and George Rignold



The fashionable tragedian: Henry Irving



The imperial stage: Beerbohm Tree and Benson



The national arena: Granville Barker, Louis Calvert and Annie Horniman



The theatre of war: the 1916 tercentenary


In conclusion


Notes


References


Index