The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832

Download or read book The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832 written by David Worrall and published by Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and "spouting clubs." Using a range of neglected plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the disruptive vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.