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23 January 2025 / News

New Book on Repertory Theatre 1760-1830

STOCK PIECES, BRITISH REPERTORY THEATRE, 1760–1830

Susan Valladares explores how power was determined, contested and (sometimes) lost within the Romantic theatre repertoire.

Stock Pieces re-examines British theatre history of the Romantic period through a selection of the most popular dramas in the contemporary repertoire. Through lively case studies, it offers the first in-depth investigation of how ‘stock piece’ status was acquired, its box office significance, ideological purchase, and more extensive influence beyond the playhouse.

 

KEY FEATURES

* Makes an original and lively contribution to the growing field of Romantic-period theatre studies through in-depth analysis of how the contemporary repertoire was sustained by the frequent revival (and revision) of older plays.

*Foregrounds the national and regional aspects of Romantic-period theatre with reference to professional and amateur dramatic cultures in London, the British provinces and colonial Jamaica.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in Drama post–1660 at Durham University. She is the author of Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 (2015), and a member of the Society for Theatre Research, receiving the Kathleen Barker Research Award in 2009.

Hardback | Ebook

| 9781835537862 | £115 / $150

| 9781835537886 | £115 / $150

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