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What can musical benefits tell us about the ecology of performance in eighteenth-century Britain? Why did musical benefits become such an integral part of a performer’s work in the eighteenth century? How similar were benefits for performers to those for charities? What did musical benefits look like across Britain, in comparison with those in London? […]
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One afternoon at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1896, Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, took this photograph of her niece, Helena Victoria, swimming on her back. The photograph was pasted into an album of family photos—holiday snaps from the 1890s, a decade in which photography became much easier to […]
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William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have published his plays continuously in various forms. In January, the Cambridge editions of Shakespeare’s complete works – and much more besides – will […]
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This book would probably not have been written if, as a postgraduate, I had not left Cambridge for my first job as assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva, and then, once I had met my (French) husband, settled in France. Living and working in three distinct, if overlapping, cultures (English, French, Swiss) and two, […]
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In a lecture given in 1978 the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges observed that nations tend to choose authors to represent them that do not resemble their national character, citing, as a striking example, the discrepancy between a ‘hyperbolic’ Shakespeare and an England of ‘understatement’. His observation resonates with the central argument of my book, […]
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The fraught atmosphere of surveillance and intimidation has long made twentieth-century Russian music a fascinating area of study. Music audiences, performers, and scholars alike have been engrossed by the all-too recent time when the state directly interfered in matters of music-making and composers lived in fear. The Soviet Union was larger than just Russia, of […]
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“It’s the network, stupid”, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872-1922) might have said, had he lived longer. Perhaps the greatest theatrical entrepreneur, nobody has ever heard of, Bandmann’s career is unique and unsung. Between 1895 and 1922 he created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar to Tokyo and included regular tours to the West Indies and […]
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In October 2015 Ireland’s National Theatre announced its commemorative ‘Waking the Nation’ programme. The intention was to ‘interrogate rather than celebrate’ the 1916 Easter Rising, yet women were largely obscured from the programme: 90% of the plays were male authored. The marginalization of women theatre-makers and female narratives prompted an incendiary response in the form […]
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