Narrating Performance in Nineteenth-Century Britain
For nineteenth-century audiences, telling stories about theatrical events was a key part of the social experience of spectating. In this talk, I analyze how theatergoers and actors extended forms of audience participation by circulating narratives about performance in memoirs, letters, periodical essays, and novels. Investigating some of the specific ways that these writers drew on nineteenth-century techniques like epistolarity and seriality to narrate performance, I also outline some of the larger insights that can be gained from an intergeneric approach to theater writing -- both within the period and beyond.
For nineteenth-century audiences, telling stories about theatrical events was a key part of the social experience of spectating. In this talk, I analyze how theatergoers and actors extended forms of audience participation by circulating narratives about performance in memoirs, letters, periodical essays, and novels. Investigating some of the specific ways that these writers drew on nineteenth-century techniques like epistolarity and seriality to narrate performance, I also outline some of the larger insights that can be gained from an intergeneric approach to theater writing -- both within the period and beyond.
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