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Vol. 1: Origins to 1660

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Origins to 1660

Series The Cambridge History of British Theatre
, Volume 1

Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-13
0521650402

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521650403

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521650403

Overview

Volume One of The Cambridge History of British Theatre begins in Roman Britain and ends with Charles II's restoration to the throne imminent. The four essays in Part One treat pre-Elizabethan theatre, the eight in Part Two focus on the riches of the Elizabethan era, and the seven in Part Three on theatrical developments during and after the reigns of James I and Charles I. The essays are written for the general reader by leading British and American scholars, who combine an interest in the written drama with an understanding of the material conditions of the evolving professional theatre which the drama helped to sustain, often enough against formidable odds. The volume unfolds a story of enterprise, innovation and, sometimes, of desperate survival over years in which theatre and drama were necessarily embroiled in the politics of everyday life: a vivid subject vividly presented.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Origins to 1660 in the Cambridge University Press online
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Vol. 1: Origins to 1660

Frontmatter

Pre-Elizabethan theatre

Elizabethan theatre

Jacobean and Caroline theatre

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