- 326 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.
It includes four annotated plays: Timour the Tartar by Matthew G. Lewis, The Battle of Waterloo by J. H. Amherst, Mazeppa by Henry M. Milner, and The Whip by Henry Hamilton and Cecil Raleigh. An introduction precedes the collection, providing the information necessary to understand and contextualize the genre and the plays as both written and performance texts, and within the time period of their original productions, as well as within the larger histories of theatre and equestrian entertainments. Additional related plays are identified, excerpted, and explored, providing readers with a wide range of examples to better understand the development and significance of this unique form of popular theatre. Also identified and explored are significant contributions made to stage technology and design by the patented stage machinery designed for the production of the mechanized form of equestrian drama, which became popular in the late nineteenth century.
Equestrian Drama is suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in theatre history, dramatic literature, performance studies, and equine studies.
An online supplement to this book is available to provide readers with additional content relating to this collection, including original English language translations of La Fille Hussard and Rognolet and Passe-Carreau, as well as the full annotated text of Turpin's Ride to York.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note on the Text
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Timour the Tartar; A Melo Drame in Two Acts, by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis (1811)
- 2 The Battle of Waterloo, A Grand Military Melodrama, in Three Acts, by J. H. Amherst (1824)
- 3 Mazeppa: A Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, by Henry M. Milner (1831)
- 4 The Whip, by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton (1909)
- Index