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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Leslie Ritchie (Queen's University, Ontario)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9781108475877ISBN 10: 1108475876 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 17 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A view of London's mediascape, circa 1741–1776; 2. Proofs: Garrick's involvement in the mediascape; 3. Advertising and brand Garrick: infinite variety; 4. A short history of negative publicity; 5. Prompting, inside and outside the theatre; Conclusion: Garrick re-collected.Reviews'There is much new material here - thanks to Ritchie's expert mining of manuscript and archival materials - for theater historians and scholars of media. Fine illustrations; full bibliography ... Highly recommended.' E. D. Hill, Choice 'There is much new material here - thanks to Ritchie's expert mining of manuscript and archival materials - for theater historians and scholars of media. Fine illustrations; full bibliography ... Highly recommended.' E. D. Hill, Choice 'There is much new material here - thanks to Ritchie's expert mining of manuscript and archival materials - for theater historians and scholars of media. Fine illustrations; full bibliography ... Highly recommended.' E. D. Hill, Choice 'Leslie Ritchie's meticulous David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity joins such re-considerations of the assumptions and anecdotes that shape the study of eighteenth-century theatre - and particularly of its most famous actor-manager.' Julia H. Fawcett, Theatre Journal 'There is much new material here - thanks to Ritchie's expert mining of manuscript and archival materials - for theater historians and scholars of media. Fine illustrations; full bibliography ... Highly recommended.' E. D. Hill, Choice Author InformationLeslie Ritchie is Associate Professor of English Literature at Queen's University, Ontario. She is the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant and has received fellowships at the Houghton Library, Harvard, and the Folger Shakespeare Library for her work on David Garrick. Ritchie's previous work includes Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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