Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. __Playing to the Crowd__ is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in the communities. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1 Children on Stage: Idealized, Eroticized, Demonized......Page 20 2 Moore and the Drama of Irish Protest......Page 38 3 Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves......Page 64 4 Glenarvon on Stage: Impersonating Byron......Page 82 5 Foscari : Mitford’s Dramaturgy of the Unspoken and Unexplained......Page 98 6 Wilhelm Tell on the London Stage......Page 112 7 Heroic Rebels and Highwaymen......Page 128 8 London Crime: Executioners, Murderers, Detectives......Page 152 9 Transpontine Theaters and Working-Class Audiences......Page 184 Notes......Page 224 Bibliography......Page 266 Index......Page 302 Children on stage : idealised, demonised, eroticised The M.P. or the blue-stocking : Moore and Irish protest Zapolya : Coleridge and the Werewolves Glenarvon : impersonating Lord Byron Foscari : Mitford's dramaturgy of the unspoken and unexplained Wilhelm Tell on the London stage Heroic rebels and highwaymen London crime : executioners, murderers, detectives Transpontine theatres and working-class audiences. "Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities"--Provided by publisher

Between 1780 and 1830, the growing London population divided into immigrant neighborhoods with two dozen unlicensed theatres tailoring productions to attract and serve this new audience. Playing to the Crowd is the first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in the communities.