Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820 : a history / John C. Greene
- Author
- Greene, John C., 1946-
- Published
- Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes (708 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Theatres, Music Halls, and Pleasure Gardens -- Theatres -- Smock Alley Theatre (1735-1787) -- Aungier Street Theatre (post-1745 to February 1769) -- First City Theatre, Capel Street (1745-?) -- Second "Little" Capel Street Theatre (1770-1807?) -- Crow Street Theatre (1757-1820) -- Fishamble Street Theatre (see Fishamble Street Music Hall) -- Astley's Amphitheatre Royal, Darby Square (March? 1788) -- Astley's Amphitheatre Royal, Peter Street (1789-1806) -- Royal Hibernian Theatre (1809-1812) -- Percy's Stafford Street (private) Theatre (intermittently 1803-1807?) -- Rotunda Theatre (see New Gardens, Great Britain Street and Rotunda) -- Music Halls -- Bull's Head Tavern (dates uncertain) -- Crow Street Music Hall (1731-1757) -- Philharmonic Room, Fishamble Street (1736-1757?) -- Fishamble Street Music Hall and Theatre (1741-1867) -- Exhibition Room, William Street (1783?-1814?) -- Willis's Concert Room, No. 7, Westmoreland Street (ca. 1805-1818) -- Pleasure Gardens -- New Gardens, Great Britain Street, Rotunda, and Rotunda Theatre (1757-1821) -- Spring Gardens, St. Stephen's Green (1750-51) -- City Bason (i.e. Basin) (1754-58?) -- Marlborough Bowling Green (pre-1728-64) -- Mount Stanhope Gardens, Blackhorse Lane (1751-?) -- Ranelagh Gardens (1768-1785) -- Vauxhall Gardens (1769-?) -- 2.Regulation of the Theatre in Ireland -- Masters of the Revels in Ireland -- Lord Mayor's Authority Over Theatres -- Attempts to Secure a Monopoly -- The Stage Act of 1786 -- Performance Rights in Ireland -- 3.Theatrical Accommodations and Practices -- The Theatrical Season -- Seasonal Opening and Closing Dates -- Summer Seasons -- Days of Performance -- Nightly Opening, Closing, and Curtain Times -- Command Performances and Government Nights -- Benefit Performances -- House Charges for Benefits -- Ticket Nights -- Allocation of Benefits -- Choice of Benefit Play -- The Benefit "Season" -- Types of Benefit -- Performers' Benefits (stage personnel, musicians, equilibrists, etc.) -- House Personnel -- Charity -- The Irish Theatrical Funds -- Authors' Benefits -- Advertising -- 4.Theatre Finances -- Admission Categories, Prices, and Conditions -- House Charges -- Tickets -- Income and expenses -- Nightly Performance Receipts -- Seasonal Income -- Subscribers and Debenture Holders -- Subscription Series Subscribers -- Season Ticket Holders -- Proprietors as Subscribers -- Use of Subscribers' and Debenture Holders' Tickets -- Subscription Concerts -- Odd Money -- Servants Keeping Places -- 5.Theatre Managers and Administration -- Thomas Sheridan -- Benjamin Victor and John Sowdon -- Spranger Barry and Henry Woodward -- Henry Brown -- Henry Mossop -- Thomas Ryder -- Vandermere, Waddy, and Sparks -- William Dawson -- Thomas Crawford -- Truby and Watts -- Richard Daly -- Philip and John Astley -- Robert Owenson -- Giordani and Leoni -- Henry Erskine Johnston -- Frederick Edward Jones -- 6.The Dublin Repertory -- Introduction -- Overview -- Mainpieces -- Mainpiece Popularity -- Afterpieces -- Afterpiece Popularity -- Genres and Generic Shifts -- New Genres -- Preludes -- Interludes -- Musical Entertainments -- Comic Operas -- Burlettas -- Italian Operas -- Impact of Musical Entertainments on the Repertory -- Musical Entertainments as Afterpieces -- Combined Importance of Musical Entertainments -- Melodramas -- Hippodrama and Canine Drama -- New Plays from London in Dublin's Legitimate Theatres -- Long-term Revivals -- Stock Plays -- Repertory by Chronological Period -- Managerial Preference for Older or Newer Plays -- Plays of Special Irish Interest -- Performance of Tamerlane in Dublin -- Shakespeare in the Dublin Repertory -- 7.Scenery, Machinery, Lighting, Costume, Makeup, and Properties -- Scenery and Machinery -- Scene Shifting Machinery -- Chronology of Scenery and Scenographers, Machinery and Machinists -- The Curtain -- Lighting -- Costumes -- Chronological Survey of References to Costumes -- Makeup.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781611460667 (v. 1; cloth : alk. paper)
1611460662 (v. 1; cloth : alk. paper)
9781611461008 (v. 2; cloth : alk. paper)
1611461006 (v. 2; cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy, vols. 1-2: Purchased with funds from the Hastings Libraries Endowment; 2011.
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013 - Endowment Note
- The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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