Overview
This title provides a portrait of Queen Victoria ""at the play"". Through Victoria's diary, artwork, and correspondence we see her as enraptured spectator, bountiful patron, and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high spirited and unruly a woman who delights in gory melodramas and circus acts. This volume gives readers a personal account of her lifelong devotion to the stage. It should appeal to anyone interested in monarchy's place in popular culture.
Full Product Details
Author: R. Schoch
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.548kg
ISBN: 9781403932976
ISBN 10: 1403932972
Pages: 235
Publication Date: 29 January 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This delightful, charmingly illustrated account of Queen Victoria's long-lasting and eventful love affair with the theatre offers no less entertainment than sociological illumination. No one is better fitted to tell this story than Richard Schoch, and he does with deep scholarship, verve and flair.' - Professor Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Centre '...amiable study of Queen Victoria's theatre-going.' - John Bowen, Times Literary Supplement 'Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age is a little gem of beautifully researched detail, full of quotations from original sources; the surprising, the thought provoking, the amusing and the bizarre'. - Charlotte Zeepvat, Royalty Digest 'As with Schoch's previous excavations of Victorian theatricality, this is a very enjoyable, red-plush study.' - Plays International
This delightful, charmingly illustrated account of Queen Victoria's long-lasting and eventful love affair with the theatre offers no less entertainment than sociological illumination. No one is better fitted to tell this story than Richard Schoch, and he does with deep scholarship, verve and flair. --Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Centre<br>
Author Information
RICHARD W. SCHOCH is Reader in Drama and Theatre History at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous works include Not Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Victorian Stage, and Victorian Theatrical Burlesques. The recipient of fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Leverhulme Trust, and The American Society for Theatre Research, he has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize and the Barnard Hewitt Award.
