Equestrian Drama

<p><em>Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays</em> is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.</p><p>It includes four annotated plays: <em>Timour the Tartar</em> by Matthew G. Lewis <em>The Battle of Waterloo</em> by J. H. Amherst <em>Mazeppa</em> by Henry M. Milner and <em>The Whip</em> by Henry Hamilton and Cecil Raleigh. An introduction precedes the collection providing the information necessary to understand and contextualize the genre and the plays as both written and performance texts and within the time period of their original productions as well as within the larger histories of theatre and equestrian entertainments. Additional related plays are identified excerpted and explored providing readers with a wide range of examples to better understand the development and significance of this unique form of popular theatre. Also identified and explored are significant contributions made to stage technology and design by the patented stage machinery designed for the production of the mechanized form of equestrian drama which became popular in the late nineteenth century.</p><p><i>Equestrian Drama</i> is suitable for undergraduate graduate and professional students in theatre history dramatic literature performance studies and equine studies.</p><p>An online supplement to this book is available to provide readers with additional content relating to this collection including original English language translations of <i>La Fille Hussard </i>and <i>Rognolet and Passe-Carreau</i> as well as the full annotated text of <i>Turpin's Ride to York</i>.</p>