{"product_id":"stock-pieces-susan-valladares-9781835537862","title":"Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760-1830","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do we gain from watching a familiar play for the \u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003eth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver varied programmes, relied on a repertoire of 'stock' entertainments performed in alternation with the latest plays. Repertory theatre was not new to the Romantic period, but it took on additional purchase at a time when the playhouse was not simply a site for entertainment but a government-controlled cultural institution and business subject to sometimes extreme financial, political, and ideological pressures. Through an innovative selection of case studies drawn from deep archival research, \u003cem\u003eStock Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e juxtaposes canonical with otherwise forgotten entertainments; unites the period's professional and amateur dramatic cultures; and spans British metropolitan, provincial and imperial geographies. The picture that emerges is fresh and compelling. \u003cem\u003eStock Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on the mechanics of stock piece status; the Romantic afterlives of the near contemporaries of Shakespeare, whose repertoire status he came to undermine; how various agents (ranging from pantomime arrangers to enslaved performers in Jamaica) contested received aesthetic and cultural values; and the extent to which investments in the abolitionist cause were remediated by the repertoire's revival and reenactment of the spectral violence of the slave trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStock Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e gives powerful testimony of how the Romantic-period dramatic repertoire could be mobilised to signify social and political practices that operated outside the theatrical institution, crossed national borders, and dared to effect real change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Valladares\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835537863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835537862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Susan Valladares","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140927017215,"sku":"9781835537862","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2a46ae1-7adc-43c6-9158-5536c64e8753.jpg?v=1726597431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stock-pieces-susan-valladares-9781835537862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}