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An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume One - From the Romans to the Enlightenment book cover

1st Edition

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance Volume One - From the Romans to the Enlightenment

By Robert Leach Copyright 2019
660 Pages
by Routledge

660 Pages
by Routledge

660 Pages
by Routledge
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An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and... Read more

Prologue : The Romans in Britain  Part 1 : Theatre Before Theatres  Interlude : The Queen’s Men  Part 2 : Open Air Public Theatres  Interlude : The boy companies of St Paul’s and the Chapel Royal  Part 3 : Cavalier Theatre  Interlude : Dramatick Opera  Part 4 : Theatre and Bourgeois Society  Interlude : Eighteenth Century Amateur Theatricals  Part 5 : Theatre and the Enlightenment  Interlude : Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee





 

Biography

Robert Leach has been schoolteacher, political activist, teacher of acting, freelance theatre director and academic. Not only has he taught at Birmingham, Edinburgh and Cumbria universities, he has also acted professionally in Britain and the USA, directed plays in Russia and Britain and published five volumes of poetry.

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