Everyone's Theater (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
226
Utgivningsdatum
2019-07-30
Förlag
The University of Michigan Press
Illustrationer
3 illustrations, 2 tables
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 152 mm
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780472131471

Everyone's Theater

Literature and Daily Life in England, 18601914

av Michael Meeuwis
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-07-30
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Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theater going nation. Everyone's Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the homeand in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone's Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
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Meeuwis sets a fresh direction for future scholarship. In making such a strong case for the significant social role played by the theater in the 19th century, Everyone's Theater promises to be the study that moves the theater more centrally into conversations about the interplay between culture and the constructions of individual, class, and national identities." - Marty Gould, University of South Florida "Argues that Victorian theatrical cultureredefined to include not only professional performances in commercial theaters but also how-to manuals for amateur theatricals and examples of how they were implemented, the diaries of everyday theater-goers, shipboard performances, and performances recorded in the East India Office Archiveprovides a vehicle for understanding the great scope of theater's influence in cultivating behavioral norms for the public. This is original and exciting work, and the archival work is top-notch an important contribution to Victorian studies, theater studies, and cultural studies." - Sharon Weltman, Louisiana State University

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Michael Meeuwis is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.

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