Theater history has often been interpreted in ways which highlight and omit key elements. Jacky Bratton explores this dilemma by examining how theater history has been chronicled and interpreted. Analyzing case studies from nineteenth-century British theater, Bratton reveals the difference between the existence of "the drama" (plays and play literature) and "the stage" (performance, theater building, and attendance).

New Readings in Theatre History (Theatre and Performance Theory)

Bratton, Jacky

Humor & Entertainment

Cambridge University Press

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Previously unpublished manuscripts--James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book--offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic generated audience attention for the riders and acrobats, by parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' or stand-up comedy sets.

The Victorian Clown

Featherstone, Ann

Melodrama: Stage Picture Screen

Cook, Jim

British Film Inst

Drawn from papers presented at the 1992 international conference of the same name, held in London, this book offers a "state-of-the-art" survey of melodrama studies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including film theory, history, theatre studies and musicology, address the problems raised by the concept and the genre of melodrama, a popular dramatic fiction which spans Victorian and contemporary entertainment.

Previously unpublished manuscripts--James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Henglers' circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gag book--offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic generated audience attention for the riders and acrobats, by parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionism, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' or stand-up comedy sets.

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New Readings in Theatre History (Theatre and Performance Theory)

New Readings in Theatre History (Theatre and Performance Theory)

The Victorian Clown

Melodrama: Stage Picture Screen

Melodrama: Stage Picture Screen

The Victorian Clown