Dear BARS members,
I am delighted to announce that my book, Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 has just been published by Ashgate: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472418630
Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815…
* Constitutes the first in-depth study of the English theatres during the Peninsular War.
* Builds upon original archival research conducted in London, Bristol and Lisbon.
* Offers a comprehensive overview of both legitimate and illegitimate theatre venues in London and the provinces.
* Provides a detailed discussion of both established and topical plays performed during the war, including a chapter focused on Shakespearean revivals.
* An interdisciplinary study, at once literary and historical.
* Remains committed, throughout, to the study of drama and performance practices.
* Features 21 illustrations that help recover theatre as a multimedia experience.
* Traverses a range of geographies (Spain, Portugal, Peru), with an Afterword that focuses on theatre-going in Lisbon during the Peninsular War.
* Includes a Calendar of Plays for the London winter patent theatres (Covent Garden and Drury Lane) and Bristol Theatre Royal 1807-1815.
* This fully-indexed Calendar, published for the first time, helps fill what is known as a ‘black hole’ in theatre history.
* The Calendar can be used to research any aspect of theatre-going during the early nineteenth century. It shows how individual plays and entertainments fit within the whole programme (of mainpiece, interludes and afterpiece) offered on any given night. It could be used, for example, to enable historically sensitive re-stagings of the contemporary repertoire.
I do hope that you will consider ordering a copy for yourself/your University library.
I attach a promotional flyer, offering a 20% discount, and further details about the book itself. Please feel free to get in touch if you require any more information ([log in to unmask]).
Thank you for your kind consideration.
All best
Susan
Dr Susan Valladares (FHEA)
Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in English
Worcester College
Oxford
OX1 2HB
Editor of The BARS Review, the reviews journal of the British Association for Romantic Studies
http://www.bars.ac.uk
New publication:
Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815 (Ashgate, 2015)
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781472418630&lang=en
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