One Audience: Art, Theatre & Visual Culture

Hear Patricia Smyth and Jim Davis talk about how popularity was an issue for the theatre and art and how newly expanded urban audiences’ emotional responses caused concerns for elite critics. They’ll talk about how theatre and art were part of a wider spectacular nineteenth century visual culture, what visual culture actually is and how it affected audiences’ lives.

Entertainments, books, paintings & people named in this podcast: 

• Painter: Paul Delaroche
• Painting: Delaroche, Paul (1833) The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
• Painting: Delaroche, Paul (1855) The Young Christian Martyr
• Painting: Delaroche, Paul (1834) The Assassination of the Duc de Guise, Château de Chantilly
• Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Panorama, see more here: https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-spectacle-of-the-panorama
• Entertainment: Diorama Paintings, see more here: http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Daguerre's_Diorama
• Play: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of Garryowen
• Painting: Millais, John Everett (1851-2) Ophelia
• Academic Book: Meisel, Martin (1983) Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
• Painting: Solomon, Abraham (1857) Waiting for the Verdict
• Play: Boucicault, Dion (1857) The Poor of New York (in the US, first adapted to be: The Streets of London, before topical adaptations of the cities it was produced in).

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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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