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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BRITISH THEATRE
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| Volume: |
v.1 |
| By: |
Dr. Jane Milling (Editor), Peter Thomson (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521650402 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521650403 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2004 |
| Series: |
The Cambridge History of British Theatre |
| Pages: |
572 |
| Description: |
The first of three volumes looking at the turbulent public life of performance in Britain. |
| Synopsis: |
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part I treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part II focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part III on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented. |
| Illustrations: |
40 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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