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The Making of the West End Stage

Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

By: Jacky Bratton

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The Making of the West End Stage

Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

By: Jacky Bratton

All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little Strand Theatre and the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street in the experience of mid-century London, and of plays drawn from the work of Charles Dickens as well as burlesques by the early writers of Punch. Discovering a much more dynamic and often woman-led entertainment industry at the heart of the British Empire, this book seeks a new understanding of the work of women including Eliza Vestris, Mary Ann Keeley and Marie Wilton in creating the template for a magical new theatre of music, feeling and spectacle.

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The Making of the West End Stage

Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870

By: Jacky Bratton

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Women and Comedy

History, Theory, Practice

By: Peter Dickinson,Anne Higgins,Paul Matthew St. Pierre,Diana Solomon,Sean Zwagerman

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Women and Comedy

History, Theory, Practice

By: Peter Dickinson,Anne Higgins,Paul Matthew St. Pierre,Diana Solomon,Sean Zwagerman

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to—and political uses of—comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies. Through a reconsideration of literary, theatrical, and mass media texts from the Classical period to the present, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice responds to the historical marginalization and/or trivialization of both women and comedy. The essays collected in this volume assert the importance of recognizing the role of women and comedy in order to understand these texts, their historical contexts, and their possibilities and limits as models for social engagement. In the spirit of comedy itself, these analyses allow for opportunities to challenge and reevaluate the theoretical approaches themselves.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Making of the West End Stage

Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870

By: Professor Jacky Bratton

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Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870

By: Professor Jacky Bratton

Bratton presents a completely new history of the dynamic beginnings of the modern world of London West End theatre.

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