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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole

English

By (author): Joel Schechter

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fieldings forgery of an actors biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians. Reconstructions of lost episodes in theatre history include a recounting of Fieldings last days as a stage satirist before his Little Haymarket theatre was closed, Charlotte Charkes performances as Macheath and Polly Peachum in The Beggars Opera and the 1740 staging of Jonathan Swifts Polite Conversation on a double bill with Shakespeares Merry Wives . . .

Some documents in this collection offer another perspective on theatre history by employing fiction speculative reconstructions of Georgian theatre events for which historical facts are scarce or missing.  Brecht also employed fiction to reconsider history in short stories he wrote about Lucullus and Socrates, and a novel about Julius Caesar.  The stories and several new letters attributed to Fielding delve into theatre history and keep some of its controversy alive in new ways, historicizing fiction and theatre somewhat as Brecht did.

It offers an unconventional, new reading of theatre history, Brechts tradition and stage satire.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2016
  • Publisher: University of Exeter Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780859899970

About Joel Schechter

Joel Schechter is Professor of Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University.  He is famous as a writer about clowns jesters satirists and their radical politics.  Much of his work has been focused on contemporary global mayhem. He was previously Professor of Dramatic Literature at Yale School of Drama lecturer in Performance Studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research. He was Editor in Chief of the Yale journal Theater from 1977-92.

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