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- Title
Documents of Performance: Illustrated Reviews of Naval Theatricals.
- Authors
Isbell, Mary
- Abstract
Like the larger history of amateur theatre in the long nineteenth century, the history of shipboard theatricals reveals how British drama circulated outside the commercial theatre marketplace. The documents reproduced point to particular performances by groups of amateurs that mounted many such events, and as more documents of this sort are uncovered we can expect to learn more about the reception and adaptation of British drama, not to mention new perspectives on the cultural history of the Royal Navy. The annotated reviews of naval theatricals included extend Patrick O'Neill's work on theatricals mounted by British officers and sailors on Arctic expeditions between 1819 and 1875, and Gillian Russell's exploration of theatricals in the Georgian navy. As these late-nineteenth-century documents demonstrate, theatricals remained popular with sailors and officers throughout the long nineteenth century.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; AMATEUR theater; GREAT Britain. Royal Navy; DRAMA criticism; THEATER reviews; SEAFARING life; PUBLIC sphere; PRIVATE sphere
- Publication
Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 2, p67
- ISSN
1748-3727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/NCTF.38.2.8