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      • Volume 1: Origins to 1660
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      23 November 2004
      ISBN:
      9781139054058
      9780521650403
      9781107497078
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521650403
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.152kg, 572 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.91kg, 572 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British Theatre, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of British Theatre
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Music
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British Theatre, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of British Theatre
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Music
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    Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part I treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part II focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part III on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented.

    Reviews

    ‘A valuable contribution to scholarship through nineteen fine essays.'

    Source: Sixteenth Century Journal

    ‘This work makes delightful reading.'

    Frederick Tollini Source: Renaissance Quarterly

    '… a set that will stand as the most valuable resource on British theater for some time to come. Essential.'

    Source: Choice

    '… exceptional … destined to prove one of the most erudite, and yet accessible, resources for theatre scholars and students as well as serious theatre practitioners … must be hailed as perhaps the most carefully compiled and comprehensively covered history ever attempted … I know of no library that has any other theatre history (focusing exclusively on British Theatre) on its shelves to challenge this great new work's pole position in the theatre reference stakes … All in all a great work.'

    Source: Amateur Stage

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