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When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare - Essays on Nineteenth-Century British and American Theatre (Paperback)
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When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare - Essays on Nineteenth-Century British and American Theatre (Paperback)
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The richness of Victorian theatre has often been neglected because
of the era's most celebrated productions of Shakespeare's plays.
Judith L. Fisher and Stephen Watt present a vigorous collection of
eighteen essays covering the vast expanse of this "other" theatre,
including social dramas, Christmas pantomimes, and adaptations of
Gothic novels such as "Guy Mannering" and "Metamora; or, The Last
of the Wampanoags."
Reflecting both the longings and values of the public and the
theatrical conventions of the times, Victorian productions could
capture audiences with the historical verisimilitude of William
Charles Macready's production of "Richelieu "or incite a storm of
public outrage with the too explicitly fallen woman in Olga
Nethersole's interpretation of "Sapho." Playwrights worked at
adapting such popular classic works as "The Count of Monte Cristo"
or devising new melodramas such as "Rent Day" and "Luke the
Labourer." Pandering to the tastes of an expanding middle-class
audience, theatre bills reflected popular fascination with the
daily newspapers' stories of social maladies. Transposed to the
stage, "bad" men and women could be punished for wrongdoings in a
way that was unlikely or impossible in real life. Emphasizing the
variety of stagecraft in the Victorian age, the contributors to
"When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare" present a composite portrait
of the vibrant theatrical worlds that existed in both
nineteenth-century New York and London.
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