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‘“All the world’s a stage & all the men are merely players”: Theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days’

Valladares, Susan

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Kate Astbury
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Mark Philp
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Abstract

This essay seeks to situate the Hundred Days within the context of English popular culture by offering an examination of the plays staged at the patent theatres of Covent Garden and Drury Lane during Napoleon’s return to power. As sites closely monitored by the Office of the Lord Chamberlain, Covent Garden and Drury Lane represented venues wherein popular reactions, rarely straightforwardly and often uneasily, were kept in check by the state. This essay examines how these theatres’ repertoires engaged with Napoleon’s return to France; whether questions of political order, security, and legitimacy were acknowledged and addressed; and what Edmund Kean’s early career might reveal about the political purchase of theatre-going during this period.

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Valladares, S. (2018). ‘“All the world’s a stage & all the men are merely players”: Theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days’. In K. Astbury, & M. Philp (Eds.), Napoleon’s 100 Days and the Struggle for Legitimacy (185-208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70208-7_10

Online Publication Date Feb 13, 2018
Publication Date 2018
Deposit Date Oct 19, 2018
Publicly Available Date Aug 12, 2021
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 185-208
Series Title War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Book Title Napoleon’s 100 Days and the Struggle for Legitimacy
ISBN 9783319702070
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70208-7_10

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