Distance, Theatre, and the Public Voice, 17501850

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Author(s): M. Nuss
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9781349450800, 978-1349450800

Synopsis

As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.