Staging the Peninsular War

English Theatres 1807-1815

• Author(s): Dr Susan Valladares,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 368
• ISBN_10: 1472418638
  ISBN_13: 9781472418630
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Theater / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Drama , Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature ,

Description:... In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and shaped public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.