Victorian Theatrical Burlesques Contributor(s): Schoch, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138644331 ISBN-13: 9781138644335 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Modern - 19th Century |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.94 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays - represents a valuable scholarly tool for students and scholars of modern drama, theatre history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques includes a 'state-of-the-art' introduction which provides a general overview of theatrical burlesques in the Victorian era, emphasising performance history. Sustained reference is made to burlesques other than those presented in the anthology. Through its general introduction, prefaces and annotations to individual plays, checklist of burlesque plays, and bibliography, the unique volume allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to see Victorian burlesques as a rich historical record of shifting attitudes toward drama and the theatre. |