The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830

Jane Moody is a Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Daniel O'Quinn is Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

• Chronology; Part I. Performance: 1. Acting and actors from Garrick to Kean Peter Thomson; 2. 'Dictating to the Empire': performance and theatrical geography in eighteenth-century Britain Jane Moody; 3. Scenography and technology Christopher Baugh; 4. Spectatorship Jim Davis; Part II. Genres: 5. The social life of eighteenth-century comedy Lisa A. Freeman; 6. Tragedy Susan Staves; 7. Pantomime John O'Brien; 8. Romantic melodrama Jacky Bratton; Part III. Identities: 9. The making of an English audience: the case of the footmen's gallery Kristina Straub; 10. Women playwrights Misty Anderson; 11. Entertaining women: the actress in eighteenth-century theatre and culture Laura J. Rosenthal; 12. Race and profit in English theatre Julie A. Carlson; Part IV. Places of Performance: 13. Private theatricals Gillian Russell; 14. Opera and theatre Michael Burden; 15. Acting in the periphery: the Irish theatre Helen Burke; 16. Theatre and Empire Daniel O'Quinn; Part V. Further Reading: 17. Reading theatre, 1730–1830 Jonathan Mulrooney; Bibliography.

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