 | European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900 Subjects: Recreation and Consumption; States of Mind; Crime and Punishment; Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Entertainment; Emotions; The Legal System; Theatre & Performance Studies; History; Literature; Theatre; Policing ; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Literature by Period; This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice from 1750 to 1900. The selected topics focus on acting and performance, staging (including set design and lighting), and audiences, and are approached with a broad perspective as well as with in-depth, focussed analysis. The volume captures the rich, dynamic and variegated nature of European theatre throughout the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and provides a carefully selected body of significant texts on this important period of theatre history. Jim Davis is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. |
