附註:103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規畫主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow -- Management. John Rich as manager and entrepreneur / Robert D. Hume -- The finances of an eighteenth-century theatre : the Lincoln's Inn Fields Company under John Rich in 1724-1725 / Judith Milhous -- What the prompter saw : the diary of Rich's prompter, John Stede / David Hunter -- John Rich, theatrical regulation, and the dilemma of the commercial stage / Matthew J. Kinservik -- Dance theatre. John Rich, French dancing, and English pantomimes / Moira Goff -- Harlequin choreographies : repetition, difference, and representation / Linda J. Tomko -- Pierrot strikes back : Francois Nivelon at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, 1723-1738 / Jennifer Thorp -- Musical theatre. Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. Rogers -- Dramatic theatre. The impact of the Shakespeare Ladies Club on John Rich's repertory in the 1737-738 theatrical season : Shakespeare versus pantomme? / Fiona Ritchie -- The nation in breeches : actress Margaret Woffington / Felicity Nussbaum -- Scenography and iconography. Scenographies behind the scenes : mapping, classifying, and interpreting John Rich's 1744 inventory of Covent Garden / Ana Martinez -- Harlequin Newton: John Rich's Necromancer and the public ccience of the 1720s / Al Coppola -- Hogarth and Rich : gesture and expression in The beggar's opera / Robin Simon -- Picturing Rich / Marcus Risdell.
