Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performan

Recovers eighteenth-century appreciation of transition as a critical tool for analysing the expression and reception of emotion in theatre.

The stage of the 1700s established a star culture, with the emergence of such acting celebrities as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber, and Sarah Siddons. It placed

This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth cen

What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal