The Politics of Romantic Theatricality 1787-1832D. Worrall1st ed. 2007Label: Palgrave MacmillanDescription: 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.
