Lighting at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82
Identifieur interne : 000506 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000505; suivant : 000507Lighting at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82
Auteurs : Judith Milhous [États-Unis]Source :
- Theatre Research International [ 0307-8833 ] ; 1991.
Abstract
For late eighteenth-century London theatres, lighting is the facet of production about which we have least information. In his authoritative Lighting in the Theatre, Gösta Bergman describes Garrick's reforms of the 1760s with reference to contemporary French practice and then speculates on what de Loutherbourg's advances in scene design imply about lighting. However, no detailed lighting accounts like those for the Comédie-Française have hitherto been known for any English theatre of this period. This gap can now be partly filled: a ‘Schedule’ attached to the answer in a 1787 Chancery lawsuit gives two seasons' worth of the daily accounts of Joseph Hayling, a tinman and purveyor of lamps, who provided light at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket from about 1768 to 1782. His schedule can be compared with contemporary French and English records to clarify our picture of lighting practices in London in the late eighteenth century.
Url:
DOI: 10.1017/S0307883300014991
Affiliations:
Links toward previous steps (curation, corpus...)
- to stream Istex, to step Corpus: 000578
- to stream Istex, to step Curation: 000576
- to stream Istex, to step Checkpoint: 000502
- to stream Main, to step Merge: 000509
- to stream Main, to step Curation: 000506
Le document en format XML
<record><TEI wicri:istexFullTextTei="biblStruct"><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title>Lighting at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82</title><author><name sortKey="Milhous, Judith" sort="Milhous, Judith" uniqKey="Milhous J" first="Judith" last="Milhous">Judith Milhous</name></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">ISTEX</idno><idno type="RBID">ISTEX:41EC58951C4AF4505A8EC4E3BB9EE13129CB3E48</idno><date when="1991" year="1991">1991</date><idno type="doi">10.1017/S0307883300014991</idno><idno type="url">https://api.istex.fr/document/41EC58951C4AF4505A8EC4E3BB9EE13129CB3E48/fulltext/pdf</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Corpus">000578</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="ISTEX">000578</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Curation">000576</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Checkpoint">000502</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Checkpoint">000502</idno><idno type="wicri:doubleKey">0307-8833:1991:Milhous J:lighting:at:the</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Merge">000509</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Curation">000506</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Exploration">000506</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title level="a">Lighting at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82</title><author><name sortKey="Milhous, Judith" sort="Milhous, Judith" uniqKey="Milhous J" first="Judith" last="Milhous">Judith Milhous</name><affiliation wicri:level="2"><country xml:lang="fr">États-Unis</country><placeName><region type="state">État de New York</region></placeName><wicri:cityArea>Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center</wicri:cityArea></affiliation></author></analytic><monogr></monogr><series><title level="j">Theatre Research International</title><title level="j" type="abbrev">Theatre Research International</title><idno type="ISSN">0307-8833</idno><idno type="eISSN">1474-0672</idno><imprint><publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher><pubPlace>Cambridge, UK</pubPlace><date type="published" when="1991">1991</date><biblScope unit="volume">16</biblScope><biblScope unit="issue">3</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" from="215">215</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" to="236">236</biblScope></imprint><idno type="ISSN">0307-8833</idno></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc><seriesStmt><idno type="ISSN">0307-8833</idno></seriesStmt></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass><langUsage><language ident="en">en</language></langUsage></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract">For late eighteenth-century London theatres, lighting is the facet of production about which we have least information. In his authoritative Lighting in the Theatre, Gösta Bergman describes Garrick's reforms of the 1760s with reference to contemporary French practice and then speculates on what de Loutherbourg's advances in scene design imply about lighting. However, no detailed lighting accounts like those for the Comédie-Française have hitherto been known for any English theatre of this period. This gap can now be partly filled: a ‘Schedule’ attached to the answer in a 1787 Chancery lawsuit gives two seasons' worth of the daily accounts of Joseph Hayling, a tinman and purveyor of lamps, who provided light at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket from about 1768 to 1782. His schedule can be compared with contemporary French and English records to clarify our picture of lighting practices in London in the late eighteenth century.</div></front></TEI><affiliations><list><country><li>États-Unis</li></country><region><li>État de New York</li></region></list><tree><country name="États-Unis"><region name="État de New York"><name sortKey="Milhous, Judith" sort="Milhous, Judith" uniqKey="Milhous J" first="Judith" last="Milhous">Judith Milhous</name></region></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Wicri/Musique/explor/LassusV2/Data/Main/Exploration
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 000506 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/biblio.hfd -nk 000506 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Wicri/Musique
|area= LassusV2
|flux= Main
|étape= Exploration
|type= RBID
|clé= ISTEX:41EC58951C4AF4505A8EC4E3BB9EE13129CB3E48
|texte= Lighting at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82
}}
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.33. |  |