The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2338
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199988747
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Unlike a typical collection of essays, the Handbook needed to include representative chapters on a history of British musical theatre that has never been written. Thus, the organisation and elaboration of the volume involved a complex grasp of British theatre historiography in order to conceptualise the notion of musical theatre as a genre identifiable for the first time as a category which we co-editors (O. Jubin and myself) regard as having been in existence since The Beggar’s Opera in 1727. _x000D_
This involved a major work of scholarship. Given the nature of the collection, a challenge for both editors was to identify and contract twenty-eight potential specialist contributors across three hundred years of British theatre history and to collaborate with them on fixing the scope and limits of each topic. _x000D_
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My expertise is in British theatre from the late seventeenth to the twentieth century, while my colleague Professor Jubin is a specialist in post-war musicals and film. The overall conception of the book was a joint undertaking. As well as playing the major role in conceiving Parts I to III of the book, I wrote pp. 1- 12 of the Introduction. Whilst Professor Jubin was responsible for overseeing the production of the editorial apparatus, including the index and took the lead in shaping the last three sections, I had substantial input to the shaping of chapters 14, 18, 19, 20, 24, 27 and 28, to which I contributed my own expert knowledge.
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