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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 January 2019
      17 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108661942
      9781108475877
      9781108469197
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108661942
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.469kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British Theatre, English Literature 1700-1830, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Literature, British Theatre, English Literature 1700-1830, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theatre's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theatre history and media studies.

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    'There is much new material here - thanks to Ritchie's expert mining of manuscript and archival materials - for theater historians and scholars of media. Fine illustrations; full bibliography … Highly recommended.'

    E. D. Hill Source: Choice

    ‘Leslie Ritchie’s meticulous David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity joins such re-considerations of the assumptions and anecdotes that shape the study of eighteenth-century theatre – and particularly of its most famous actor-manager.'

    Julia H. Fawcett Source: Theatre Journal

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