David Worrall: 3 books
Celebrity, Performance, Reception
British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theatrical vitality, David Worrall re-examines the beginnings of celebrity culture amidst a monopolistic...
Harlequin Empire
Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.
by Mark Worrall, Kelvin Barker, David Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
£80 million in debt and with financial meltdown a matter of weeks away, in July 2003 Chelsea Football Club were saved from almost certain penury by Roman Abramovich, a reclusive young billionaire that few people outside his native Russia had heard of. Making History, Not Reliving It recounts the...