The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick
Author:   Norman S. Poser (Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138333604


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   04 October 2018
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Author:   Norman S. Poser (Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138333604


ISBN 10:   1138333603
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   04 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Dawn of an Era Chapter 2: Garrick in love Chapter 3: The cultural context Chapter 4: The Licensing Act Chapter 5: The actors’ strike Chapter 6: An Irish interlude Chapter 7: A visit to the theatre Chapter 8: A community of friends and rivals Chapter 9: Garrick onstage Chapter 10: The actor as celebrity Chapter 11: Garrick rules at Drury Lane Chapter 12: Shakespeare mania Chapter 13: The English Aristophanes Chapter 14: Foote and the dangerous duchess Chapter 15: A turbulent spirit Chapter 16: The Macbeth riots Chapter 17: End of an era Epilogue Bibliography

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This book vividly reconstructs their (the actors) lives, careers and occasional scandals. Times Higher Education The Birth of Modern Theatre is a vivid and easy to read account of eighteenth-century London and how this era marked the beginning of theater as we know it today. Broadway World The Birth of Modern Theatre is frequently an engaging read, as one would expect from a compendium of juicy thespian lore, including the flooding of Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee and the amputation of Foote's foot: these, truly, are anecdotes not of an age, but for all time. James Horowitz, Sarah Lawrence College


This book vividly reconstructs their (the actors) lives, careers and occasional scandals. Times Higher Education


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Norman S. Poser is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn Law School. His previous books include Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason and Escape: A Jewish Scandinavian Family in the Second World War.

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