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The Birth of Modern Theatre - Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick (Hardcover)
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The Birth of Modern Theatre - Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick (Hardcover)
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The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age
of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London
theatre scene-a time when the theatre took on many of the features
of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting
style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The
theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by
royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure
of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite
society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The
dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre
manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his
energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in
defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who
considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical
performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket
prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes
starting a riot. This book recounts the lives-and occasionally the
scandals-of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into
the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the
London stage and its leading personalities against the background
of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped
eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all
of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the
seeds of today's stage.
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