A Performance History of The Fair Penitent
Author:   Elaine McGirr (University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009485968


Pages:   84
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Format:   Hardback
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A Performance History of The Fair Penitent


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Theatre is the most ephemeral of art forms. It is a truism that the ephemeral performance text is divorced from the static published play text. This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how readers can recover elements of performance through close attention to text. Traces of performance adhere to the mediascape in playbills and puffs, reviews and accounts. The printed text also preserves traces of performance in notation and illustration. By analysing traces found in performance trends, casting decisions, publication histories and repertory intertexts, this Element recovers how The Fair Penitent was interpreted at different points in the century and explains how a play that bombed in its first season could become a repertory staple.

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Author:   Elaine McGirr (University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009485968


ISBN 10:   1009485962
Pages:   84
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introducing the fair penitent; 2. A tragedy Reviv'd: celebrity casting and Shakespearean intertexts; 3. 'The Calista Mr. Rowe drew': picturing performance; 4. Female lotharios and the power of repertory; Appendix A: the fair penitent 1703–1800 London performance calendar; Bibliography.

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