Description

This volume examines Charles Dibdin’s extraordinarily wide-ranging career as an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author, and offers fresh insights into late Georgian culture, society, and politics.

CONTENTS

Roger Parker: Foreword
A Chronology of Charles Dibdin
1 Ian Newman, Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley: Introducing Mr Dibdin
Part One: Dibdin in Context
2 Felicity Nussbaum: Mungo Here, Mungo ‘Der’: Dibdin and Racial Performance
3 Michael Burden: Dibdin at the Royal Circus
4 Katie Osborn: Interlude 1 Dibdin and Robert Bloomfield: Voicing the Clown in Town
5 David O’ Shaughnessy: The Detail is in The Devil: Dibdin’s Patriotism in the 1780s
6 Judith Hawley: Dibdin and the Dilettantes
Nicola Pritchard-Pink: Interlude 2 Dibdin and Jane Austen: Musical Cultures of Gentry Women
Part Two: Songs in Focus
7 Oskar Cox Jensen: ‘True Courage’: A Song in History
8 Harriet Guest: A Motley Assembly: ‘The Margate Hoy’
Nick Grindle: Interlude 3 Dibdin and John Raphael Smith: Print Culture and Fine Art
Part Three: Nineteenth-Century Transitions
9 Susan Valladares: The Changing Theatrical Economy: Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler’s Wells, 1814-19
10 Jim Davis: Writing for Actors: The Dramas of Thomas Dibdin
11 Isaac Land: Each Song was just like a little Sermon’: Dibdin’s Victorian Afterlives
Mark Philp: Afterword: Dibdin’s Miscellany