Movable Londons
Performance and the Modern City
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2025
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05762-7 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05762-7 (ISBN)
How people can shape a city’s spaces and how a city can shape its people
In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that followed not only launched the careers of some of London’s most famous architects, but also transformed Londoners’ relationship to their city by underscoring the ways that people could shape a city’s spaces—and the ways that a city’s spaces could shape its people. Movable Londons looks to the Restoration theater to understand how the dispossessed made London into a modern city after the Great Fire of 1666 and how the introduction of changeable scenery in theaters altered how Londoners conceptualized the city. Fawcett makes a claim for the centrality of unplanned spaces and the role of the Restoration theater in articulating those spaces as the modern city emerged and argues that movable scenery revolutionized London’s public theaters, inviting audiences to observe how the performers—many of them hailing from the same communities as their characters—navigated the stage.
In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that followed not only launched the careers of some of London’s most famous architects, but also transformed Londoners’ relationship to their city by underscoring the ways that people could shape a city’s spaces—and the ways that a city’s spaces could shape its people. Movable Londons looks to the Restoration theater to understand how the dispossessed made London into a modern city after the Great Fire of 1666 and how the introduction of changeable scenery in theaters altered how Londoners conceptualized the city. Fawcett makes a claim for the centrality of unplanned spaces and the role of the Restoration theater in articulating those spaces as the modern city emerged and argues that movable scenery revolutionized London’s public theaters, inviting audiences to observe how the performers—many of them hailing from the same communities as their characters—navigated the stage.
Julia H. Fawcett is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Plotting (Dryden’s Servants)
Chapter Two: Personal Space (Behn’s Women)
Chapter Three: Nonconformity (Vanbrugh’s Puritans)
Chapter Four: Migration (Farquhar’s Irish)
Chapter Five: Cosmopolitanism (Wycherley’s Dancing-Master, Bickerstaffe’s Mungo, and the Legacies of Restoration London)
Epilogue: London Moving
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-05762-6 / 0472057626 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-05762-7 / 9780472057627 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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