Property and Finance on the Post-Brexit London Stage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Meeuwis
Keyword(s):  
London Stage

Restoration Theatre and the Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Strong Affinity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Restoration Theatre ◽  
Restoration Comedy ◽  
London Stage

This chapter explores the broad cultural transition from drama to novel during the Restoration period, which triggered one of the most productive periods in the history of the London stage. However, when it comes to the eighteenth century proper, the novel is more likely to be identified as the century's most significant and appealing popular genre. The chapter considers why the novel has largely superseded drama as the literary form to which ambitious and imaginative literary types without a strong affinity for verse writing would by default have turned their attention and energies by the middle of the eighteenth century. Something important may have been lost in the broad cultural transition from drama to novel. This chapter, however, contends that many things were preserved: that the novel was able to absorb many of the functions and techniques not just of Restoration comedy but of the theatre more generally.

Bernard Shaw's Beginnings on the London Stage

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 470-481
Author(s):  
Irving McKee
Keyword(s):  
New Drama ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
London Stage

In 1892, at the age of thirty-six, Bernard Shaw was a notorious socialist and a bachelor, living with his musical mother and sister in London. He had begun paying his way seven years before as a critic of art; now he assayed music; soon, in 1894, it was to be weekly evaluation of the drama. Four of his six novels—five of them written while his mother supported him—had appeared obscurely and unprofitably. In 1891 a young Dutch friend and fellow critic, Jacob T. Grein, had produced Ibsen's Ghosts to inaugurate the new Independent Theatre in support of Shaw's almost solitary campaign for the New Drama. Grein sought but could not at first find an adequate English play in the new vein. “This was not to be endured,” Shaw later recalled. “I had rashly taken up the case, and rather than let it collapse, I manufactured the evidence.” He had embarked upon Widowers' Houses in 1885 only to lay it aside uncompleted; he now finished it, and Grein produced it on 9 December 1892 at the Royalty Theatre, on quite unfashionable Dean Street in Soho. It was Shaw's first appearance on any stage.

Professional Notes and Comment

PMLA ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-356
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Cumulative Index ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Information Bank ◽  
London Stage

London Stage Index and Information Bank. A pilot study is underway at Lawrence Univ. to determine the best way of providing for The London Stage 1660–1800 a cumulative index and computer-accessible information bank. This series, edited by William B. van Lennep (late of Harvard), Emmett L. Avery (Washington State), Arthur H. Scouten (Pennsylvania), Geo. Winchester Stone, Jr. (New York Univ.), and Charles Beecher Hogan (Yale), is an exhaustive calendar of plays, entertainments, after pieces, dancing, and singing, together with casts, box receipts, advertising, contemporary comment, and all available information about scenery, theatre construction, costuming, audiences, management, and production, compiled from the playbills, newspapers, and theatrical diaries of the period. Until its publication, these records, scattered all over the world, were virtually inaccessible. Now, a scholar may turn to this 11-volume, 8,000-page, 3-million-word reference work with the confidence that whatever information is missing concerning the performance of plays in London during this period is not likely to exist.

West end women: women and the london stage, 1918-1962

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Katharine Cockin
Keyword(s):  
London Stage
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