British Theatre and the Other Arts, 1660-1800Shirley Strum Kenny Fifteen outstanding scholars of theater, music, art, and literature explore the interrelations of eighteenth-century British theater and the various art forms that it incorporated into itself. The essays examine the theater's increasing reliance on set designers, costumers, musicians and composers, poets, dramatists, and librettists, focusing on the ways in which this dependence fundamentally changed the theater. Illustrated. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources | 11 |
Theatre Related Arts and the Profit Motive An Overview | 15 |
Theatre Music and Dance | 39 |
The Multimedia Spectacular on the Restoration Stage | 41 |
Opera in London 16951706 | 65 |
EighteenthCentury Opera in London before Handel 17051710 | 90 |
Motteux and the Classical Masque | 103 |
Stage Drama as a Source for Pictorial and Plastic Arts | 147 |
The AntiEvolutionary Development of the London Theatres | 169 |
Looking upon His Like Again Garrick and the Artist | 180 |
Theatre and the Art of Caricature | 217 |
Theatre and Fiction | 233 |
An Early EighteenthCentury Prose Version of The Tempest | 235 |
Congreve Fielding and the Rise of Some Novels | 255 |
The World as Stage and Closet | 269 |
The Librettos and Lyrics of William Congreve | 114 |
The Children of Terpsichore | 131 |
Theatre and the Visual Arts | 145 |
Richardsons Dramatic Art in Clarissa | 286 |
List of Contributors | 307 |
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