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 | | The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805 by George Taylor ISBN-10: 9780521630528 ISBN-10: 0-521-63052-5 ISBN-13: 9780521630528 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-63052-8 Hardcover 2001-03-19 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description During the French Revolution most performances on the London stage were strictly censored, but political attitudes found indirect expression. This book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the ideas and events of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. By a cultural analysis of the popular entertainment and theater performances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries George Taylor reveals issues of ideological conflict and psychological stress. | ||
Book Description During the French Revolution most performances on the London stage were strictly censored, but political attitudes found indirect expression. This book looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were effected by the ideas and events of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. By a cultural analysis of the popular entertainment and theatre performances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries George Taylor reveals issues of ideological conflict and psychological stress. | ||
Download Description During the French Revolution most performances on the London stage were strictly censored, but political attitudes found indirect expression. New and popular genres like pantomime, gothic drama, history plays, musical and spectacular entertainment, and, above all, melodrama provided metaphors for the hopes and fears inspired by the conflict in France and subsequent European wars. George Taylor looks at how British drama and popular entertainment were affected by the ideas and events of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He argues that melodrama had its origins in this period, with certain gothic villains displaying qualities attributed to Robespierre and Napoleon, and that recurrent images of incarceration and dispossession reflected fears of arbitrary persecution, from the tyranny of the Bastille to the Jacobin's Reign of Terror. By a cultural analysis of the popular entertainment and theatre performances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Taylor reveals issues of ideological conflict and psychological stress. | ||