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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (315 pages) :; illustrations
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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.