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Celebrity, performance, reception : British Georgian theatre as social assemblage / David Worrall.

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By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monop...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Worrall, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Theater audiences > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Theater.
Theater audiences.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: theatre, performance and social assemblage theory
  • Theatrical assemblages and theatrical markets
  • Georgian performance and the assemblage model
  • Theatrical celebrity as social assemblage: from Garrick to Kean
  • Celebrity networks: Kean and Siddons
  • A working theatrical assemblage: 1790s
  • Representations of naval conflict
  • Theatrical assemblage populations: the Turkish ambassador's visits to London playhouses, 1794
  • Historicizing the theatrical assemblage: Marie Antoinette and the theatrical queens
  • The regulatory assemblage: the Roman actor and the politics of self-censorship
  • Conclusion.

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