Description: This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
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'...a book positively bursting with fascinating new material...both an intriguing and rewarding foray into the plebeian culture of the minor London playhouses.' David O'Shaughnessy, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& Review