Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface ix
3. Contents xv
4. Illustrations xvii
5. Foreword xix
6. Chapter I. LONDON LIFE AND THE STAGE 3
7. Chapter II. THEATRICAL MONOPOLY 20
8. Chapter III. THE LONDON THEATRES 58
9. Chapter IV. HISTRIONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAYHOUSE 80
10. Chapter V. THE COMMAND OF AUDIENCES 97
11. Chapter VI. THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT: CAUSES OF FAILURE 135
12. Chapter VII. EARLY MANAGEMENTS: KEMBLE AND ELLISTON 159
13. Chapter VIII. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: MACREADY 176
14. Chapter IX. PIONEERS OF REFORM IN MANAGEMENT: VESTRIS 189
15. Chapter X. CONSERVATISM AND TRANSITION: WEBSTER AND BUCKSTONE, PHELPS AND THE YOUNGER KEAN 213
16. Chapter XI. THE REVOLUTIONISTS: FECHTER AND BOUCICAULT 235
17. Chapter XII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE SCENE 253
18. Chapter XIII. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING OF THE POETIC DRAMA 281
19. Chapter XIV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE EARLY COMIC ACTING 314
20. Chapter XV. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE ACTING IN BURLESQUE AND THE NEWER COMEDY 331
21. Chapter XVI. THE STREAM OF LIFE ON THE STAGE THE ACTING OF MELODRAMA 349
22. Chapter XVII. THE ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY BEGINNINGS 380
23. Chapter XVIII. ROBERTSONIAN COMEDY: AT THE PRINCE OF WALES’S 402
24. Appendices 427
25. Bibliography 447
26. Index 457