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

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

Exeter Performance Studies

Joel Schechter

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Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians. Reconstructions of lost episod...

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