Theatre and Popular Culture in the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century

MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna. Theatre and Popular Culture in the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century. In Theory and Practice in English Studies. 10/1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Brno, 2021, 139 pp. ISSN 1805-0859.

Basic information

• Original name: Theatre and Popular Culture in the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century
• Authors: MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 10/1. Brno, Theory and Practice in English Studies, 139 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Brno

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Editing of thematic compilation, editing of monothematic issue of professional journal
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119143
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISSN: 1805-0859
• Keywords in English: Restoration theatre; eighteenth century; popular culture; performance; adaptation; femininity; prologues; epilogues; criminal narrative; sentimentality
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The special issue of the Theory and Practice in English Studies journal entitled “Theatre and Popular Culture in the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century” explores the connections between the English Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre and popular culture. Since the early Restoration until the mid-eighteenth century, English theatre culture witnessed a marked shift towards increased commercialization and popularization of theatre, which had great impact on its repertoire, promotion, reception as well as social and political significance. Five research articles address these issues from various angles. The issue offers papers on William Davenant’s Macbeth and the rise of the Restoration actress as a modern celebrity; Restoration prologues and epilogues which testify to the obsolete myth of the “elite” conception of Restoration drama; the interrelatedness of Bocaccio’s Decameron and an English eighteenth-century afterpiece; the dramatization of popular criminal narrative about Jack Sheppard; and a new sentimental interpretation of Juliet in David Garrick’s 1748 production Romeo and Juliet. The issue also contains an academic note on Susanna Centlivre’s The Busybody, an interview with dance historian Moira Goff about London stage dancing, a review of 2021 Red Bull Theatre (NY) production of Hannah Cowley’s The Belle’s Stratagem, a book review on Music and the Benefit Performance in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2020), and a conference report on the second online Restoration symposium from April 2021.

Links

• GA19-07494S, research and development project: Name: Anglická divadelní kultura 1660-1737

Investor: Czech Science Foundation