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Author:   Peter Yeandle ,  Katherine Newey ,  Jeffrey Richards ,  Jeffrey Richards
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780719091698

ISBN 10:   0719091691
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: politics, performance and popular culture - Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards Part I: Conceptualising performance, theorising politics 1. 'To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England' - Robert Poole 2. The platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism - Michael Sanders 3. 'Bubbles of the day': the melodramatic and the pantomimic - Katherine Newey 4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and legitimate/illegitimate divide - Caroline Radcliffe 5. Performances for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and the contested didactics of the stage - Anselm Heinrich 6. Women's suffrage and theatricality - Sos Eltis Part II: Politics in performance 7. English pantomime and the Irish question - Jill Sullivan 8. 'Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet - Jane Pritchard and Peter Yeandle 9. Drury Lane imperialism - Jeffrey Richards Part III: The performance of politics 10. 'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 - Malcolm Chase 11. Robert Peel - actor dramatist - Richard Gaunt 12. The performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage - Janice Norwood 13. Class, performance and socialist politics: the political campaigns of early labour leaders - Marcus Morris Index -- .

Reviews

'This collection will be a landmark work across the disciplines of theatre studies, social and cultural history, and cultural studies broadly conceived.' Peter Bailey, Indiana University -- .

'This collection will be a landmark work across the disciplines of theatre studies, social and cultural history, and cultural studies broadly conceived.' Peter Bailey, Indiana University 'This welcome, and often entertaining, volume brings together a synergy often remarked on but seldom explored in a systematic way: politics and the theatre. Bringing together historians and theatre scholars, the editors are to be congratulated for producing a coherent and focused collection of essays, largely structured around the concept and practice of performance, which probe that relationship from both sides of the divide: the politics of theatre, and the theatrical nature of politics.' Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University, Parliamentary History, June 2019 -- .

Author Information

Peter Yeandle is Lecturer in History at Loughborough University Katherine Newey is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Exeter Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster -- .

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