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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12064330.
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion, British.".
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence.".
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog 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."".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 263 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521630525".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England London".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion, British.".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence.".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog subject "792/.09421/09033 21".
- catalog subject "English drama 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN2596.L6 T39 2001".
- catalog subject "Theater England London History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Theater England London History 19th century.".
- catalog title "The French Revolution and the London stage, 1789-1805 / George Taylor.".
- catalog type "text".