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In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares's carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. --Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Susan Valladares' Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it...The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain. --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon's invasion of Portugal led to Britain's military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces. -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares's carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Susan Valladares' Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it...The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain. --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon's invasion of Portugal led to Britain's military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces. -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review While the span of years that her work covers is intentionally narrow, her spatial coverage is broad, as she examines drama and spectacle not only in London's patent theatres, but also in the minor theatres and Bristol's Theatre Royal and Regency Theatre. The result is that she creates an image of British theatre and performance that is truly national, rather than exclusively metropolitan... Valladares creates a rich picture of cultural engagement with the Peninsular War that goes beyond what we think of as traditional 'drama'. She connects her analysis of major works, like those by Sheridan and Shakespeare, to lecturing, graphic satire, and illegitimate drama. - Jane Wessel, Austin Peay State University, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, 22 Es grato siempre, pero mas aun en los tiempos que corren en la investiga-cion universitaria, siempre sometida a la ultima moda y a las exigencias angustiosas del escalafon, encontrarse con un trabajo generoso y esforzado como el de Susan Valladares, que reune una impresionante documentacion de primera mano, pro-cesada con solvencia teorica y capacidad interpretativa... Solo cabe terminar llamando la atencion de los expertos en las materias espanolas tratadas en esta excelente monografia, que tiene tantos reclamos de interes para ellos como para los expertos en el teatro ingles del XIX. - Fernando Duran Lopez, Cuadernos de Ilustracion y Romanticismo Valladares is at her best in providing detailed analyses of specific productions and their mediation of contemporary events, especially as seen through the lens of newspaper accounts and reviews. (...) the book offers theatre scholars an invaluable archival resource: a resource intensified by three appendices offering separate calendars of playbills for Covent Garden,Drury Lane, and Bristol's Theatre Royal, all for the period 1807-1815. - Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA in European Romantic Review (2017)

In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares's carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Susan Valladares' Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it...The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain. --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon's invasion of Portugal led to Britain's military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces. -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review While the span of years that her

In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares's carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy Susan Valladares' Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it...The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain. --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon's invasion of Portugal led to Britain's military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces. -- Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review While the span of years that her work covers is intentionally narrow, her spatial coverage is broad, as she examines drama and spectacle not only in London's patent theatres, but also in the minor theatres and Bristol's Theatre Royal and Regency Theatre. The result is that she creates an image of British theatre and performance that is truly national, rather than exclusively metropolitan... Valladares creates a rich picture of cultural engagement with the Peninsular War that goes beyond what we think of as traditional 'drama'. She connects her analysis of major works, like those by Sheridan and Shakespeare, to lecturing, graphic satire, and illegitimate drama. - Jane Wessel, Austin Peay State University, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, 22 Es grato siempre, pero mas aun en los tiempos que corren en la investiga-cion universitaria, siempre sometida a la ultima moda y a las exigencias angustiosas del escalafon, encontrarse con un trabajo generoso y esforzado como el de Susan Valladares, que reune una impresionante documentacion de primera mano, pro-cesada con solvencia teorica y capacidad interpretativa... Solo cabe terminar llamando la atencion de los expertos en las materias espanolas tratadas en esta excelente monografia, que tiene tantos reclamos de interes para ellos como para los expertos en el teatro ingles del XIX. - Fernando Duran Lopez, Cuadernos de Ilustracion y Romanticismo Valladares is at her best in providing detailed analyses of specific productions and their mediation of contemporary events, especially as seen through the lens of newspaper accounts and reviews. (...) the book offers theatre scholars an invaluable archival resource: a resource intensified by three appendices offering separate calendars of playbills for Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Bristol's Theatre Royal, all for the period 1807-1815. - Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA in European Romantic Review (2017)

"""In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares’s carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies."" -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy ""Susan Valladares’ Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it…The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain."" --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies ""This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal led to Britain’s military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces."" -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review ""While the span of years that her"

""In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares’s carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies."" --Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy ""Susan Valladares’ Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it…The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain."" --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies ""This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal led to Britain’s military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces."" -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review ""In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares’s carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies."" -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy ""Susan Valladares’ Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it…The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain."" --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies ""This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal led to Britain’s military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces."" -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review ""While the span of years that her work covers is intentionally narrow, her spatial coverage is broad, as she examines drama and spectacle not only in London’s patent theatres, but also in the minor theatres and Bristol’s Theatre Royal and Regency Theatre. The result is that she creates an image of British theatre and performance that is truly national, rather than exclusively metropolitan... Valladares creates a rich picture of cultural engagement with the Peninsular War that goes beyond what we think of as traditional ‘drama’. She connects her analysis of major works, like those by Sheridan and Shakespeare, to lecturing, graphic satire, and illegitimate drama."" - Jane Wessel, Austin Peay State University, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, 22 ""Es grato siempre, pero más aún en los tiempos que corren en la investiga-ción universitaria, siempre sometida a la última moda y a las exigencias angustiosas del escalafón, encontrarse con un trabajo generoso y esforzado como el de Susan Valladares, que reúne una impresionante documentación de primera mano, pro-cesada con solvencia teórica y capacidad interpretativa... Solo cabe terminar llamando la atención de los expertos en las materias españolas tratadas en esta excelente monografía, que tiene tantos reclamos de interés para ellos como para los expertos en el teatro inglés del XIX."" - Fernando Durán López, Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo ""Valladares is at her best in providing detailed analyses of specific productions and their mediation of contemporary events, especially as seen through the lens of newspaper accounts and reviews. (...) the book offers theatre scholars an invaluable archival resource: a resource intensified by three appendices offering separate calendars of playbills for Covent Garden,Drury Lane, and Bristol’s Theatre Royal, all for the period 1807–1815."" - Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA in European Romantic Review (2017)

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Susan Valladares is Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK.

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