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Everyone's Theater: Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914

Michael Meeuwis
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Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone's Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone's Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Representative Government
  • Two. The Form of Fitting In
  • Three. The “Theatre Royal Back Drawing-Room”
  • Four. Our Indian Way in “That Niece from India”
  • Five. The Familiar Theater of Victorian Diarists
  • Six. Umbrellas of State
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-13147-1 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12579-1 (ebook)
Subject
  • Literary Studies:20th Century Literature
  • Theater and Performance
  • Literary Studies:19th Century Literature
  • Literary Studies:British and Irish Literatures

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Figure 1: The result of the duel, with Louis stabbed and other participants in attendance, at back of stage. Foreground dei Franchi house.

Figure 1. Prompt copy for Charles Kean, Esqr., The Corsican Brothers

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Figure 1. Prompt copy for Charles Kean, Esqr., The Corsican Brothers. (Courtesy of the Houghton Theatre Library, Harvard University. Call number GEN MS Thr 1261.)

Figure 2: Poster titled The Ghost Melody. Fabien stands in front of the vision of the duel, pointing to his murdered brother.

Figure 2. "The Ghost Melody" from The Corsican Brothers

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Figure 2. Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Templeman Library, University of Kent. Call number CALB/CORS/MUS/LDN PRS/F190395.

Figure 3: Painting showing the two-faced clock visible in the first tableau, confirming the continuity of time between two geographically dispersed scenes. End of second act. The vision of figure one is reversed--we see the dei Franchi house from the perspective of the duel

Figure 3. Louis's death from The Corsican Brothers

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Figure 3. Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Templeman Library, University of Kent. Call number CALB/CORS/MUS/LDN PRS/F190395.

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