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Sarah Burdett

received her PhD from the University of York, UK, in Autumn 2016. Her research focuses on depictions of arms-bearing woman in the British theatre throughout the period 1789-1815. She has published articles on theatrical representations of historical figures including the warrior Queen Margaret of Anjou and the French murderess Charlotte Corday in journals including Comparative Drama and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Sarah has recently completed a Postdoctoral project at the University of Warwick titled "Staging Napoleonic Theatre," which involved reviving two nineteenth-century melodramas for performances at Portchester Castle and the Georgian Theatre Royal. This year Sarah was awarded the 2017 BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship (Oxford), as well as a short-term Visiting Fellowship at the Folger, which she is currently pursuing.
Theatrical disturbances and actors behaving badly: what the Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal tells us about nineteenth-century theatrical life
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Theatrical disturbances and actors behaving badly: what the Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal tells us about nineteenth-century theatrical life

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Guest post by Dr. Sarah Burdett What was life like inside the nineteenth-century London theatre? How smoothly did performances run? And how professionally did actors behave? The Drury Lane Prompter’s Journal, 1812-1818, held at the Folger, provides an excellent resource…