European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900

Download or read book European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900 written by Jim Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.