1st Edition
Staging the Peninsular War English Theatres 1807-1815
Pizarro, 'political Proteus'. Performing Shakespeare. Spectacular stages. Playing to the provinces. Afterword. Appendices: Introduction. Calendar of Covent Garden playbills 1807-1815. Calendar of Drury Lane playbills 1807-1815. Calendar of Bristol Theatre Royal playbills 1807-1815.
Biography
Susan Valladares is Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK.
"In this groundbreaking investigation of theatrical engagements with the anti-Napoleonic campaigns in Spain and Portugal, Valladares brings to life a multifaceted panorama in which writing, performance, spectatorship, history and politics converge into a fascinating intersection of forms of visuality and spectacularity. Drawing upon innovative archival research, this study confirms the centrality of theatre and the impact of Iberian cultures in early nineteenth-century Britain. Valladares’s carefully researched and convincingly argued volume is an invaluable contribution to the study of the politics of the early nineteenth-century stage and, more generally, to the fields of Romantic Anglo-Hispanic and Anglo-Portuguese Studies." -- Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy
"Susan Valladares’ Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 is, by a considerable margin, an original contribution to knowledge. It opens up a new set of previously neglected perspectives on this significant aspect of the Napoleonic war and parades the vigour of theatrical responses to it…The rich body of material identified for the first time by Valladares in Staging the Peninsula War considerably re-balances our picture of theatre in wartime Britain." --David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University/University of Roehampton, The Review of English Studies
"This richly documented and informative study accomplishes precisely what the title promises: a thorough examination of how Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal led to Britain’s military intervention in Spain and Portugal, and how back in Britain the Peninsular War excited a high degree of public interest reflected not only in newspapers and periodicals, but also in the theatres of the metropolis and the provinces." -- Frederick Burwick,University of California, Los Angeles, The BARS Review
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