1st Edition
The Birth of Modern Theatre Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Dawn of an Era
Chapter 2: Garrick in love
Chapter 3: The cultural context
Chapter 4: The Licensing Act
Chapter 5: The actors’ strike
Chapter 6: An Irish interlude
Chapter 7: A visit to the theatre
Chapter 8: A community of friends and rivals
Chapter 9: Garrick onstage
Chapter 10: The actor as celebrity
Chapter 11: Garrick rules at Drury Lane
Chapter 12: Shakespeare mania
Chapter 13: The English Aristophanes
Chapter 14: Foote and the dangerous duchess
Chapter 15: A turbulent spirit
Chapter 16: The Macbeth riots
Chapter 17: End of an era
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
Norman S. Poser is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn Law School. His previous books include Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason and Escape: A Jewish Scandinavian Family in the Second World War.
"This book vividly reconstructs their (the actors) lives, careers and occasional scandals." Times Higher Education
"The Birth of Modern Theatre is a vivid and easy to read account of eighteenth-century London and how this era marked the beginning of theater as we know it today." Broadway World
"The Birth of Modern Theatre is frequently an engaging read, as one would expect from a compendium of juicy thespian lore, including the flooding of Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee and the amputation of Foote’s foot: these, truly, are anecdotes not of an age, but for all time." James Horowitz, Sarah Lawrence College
