Books in the Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in Theatre, Music, Dance series

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, this work examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. It is of interest to scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, and cultural studies.

Hester Santlow was one of the contributers to the development of dance on the London stage. This work examines Santlow's personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. It also traces her life after retirement.

Offers an in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti. This book provides an analysis of the dramatic works by this 18th-century Russian Empress. It reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Moliere, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period.

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields.

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. This title charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective.