Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 50 | 2016
Articolo | Vita teatrale e sviluppo culturale a Liverpool tra il 1740 e il 1820

Vita teatrale e sviluppo culturale a Liverpool tra il 1740 e il 1820

Abstract

 The pace of theatrical life in Romantic Liverpool – as in the provinces in general – was a tight schedule that involved both the lives of managers, actors and actresses, and the management of every season, as the provincial theatres were places where the players, while experiencing theatrical conditions different from those in the capital, might serve their apprenticeship, practise their skills and test the reaction of the public as well. After tracing back the origins of the first theatres in Liverpool in the second half of the eighteenth century – through biographies, periodicals referring to Liverpool theatre, and Broadbent’s Annals of the Liverpool Stage –, the analysis will focus on the presence of managers such as Joseph Younger, Philip Mattocks, and Francis Aickin in Liverpool from 1772 until the end of the century, and their relation with actors of Kemble’s and Siddons’ calibre. The third aspect that will be highlighted is the importance of theatrical life in Liverpool seen in a wider perspective of cultural vitality strictly connected to forms of investment.


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Presentato: 18 Aprile 2016 | Accettato: 27 Giugno 2016 | Pubblicato 30 Settembre 2016 | Lingua: it

Keywords Cultural vitality • Romanticism • Theatre • Liverpool

Copyright © 2016 Cristina Consiglio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-13


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