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 these communities"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-8 Children on Stage: Idealized, Eroticized, Demonized....Pages 9-26 Moore and the Drama of Irish Protest....Pages 27-52 Zapolya: Coleridge and the Werewolves....Pages 53-69 Glenarvon on Stage: Impersonating Byron....Pages 71-86 Foscari: Mitford’s Dramaturgy of the Unspoken and Unexplained....Pages 87-100 Wilhelm Tell on the London Stage....Pages 101-116 Heroic Rebels and Highwaymen....Pages 117-139 London Crime: Executioners, Murderers, Detectives....Pages 141-172 Transpontine Theaters and Working-Class Audiences....Pages 173-211 Back Matter....Pages 213-319