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Spectacle in the Theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2014

Bernard Beckerman
Bernard Beckerman
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Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University.
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In his history of the Crimean War Henry Tyrrell describes the victory celebration held in Green Park, London in 1856. The celebration began with a burst of color in the night sky. Then “for two hours, followed every conceivable design of elegant and dazzling pyrotechnic art. Flights of rockets, a hundred at a time; revolving wheels, suns, stars, golden streamers, and fiery serpents chas[ed] each other through the air.… The triumph, however, of the entertainment was reserved for the close of it.…” A stationary piece blazing and revolving fantastically, “exhibited the words ‘God save the Queen. … ‘”

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Theatre Survey , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 1984 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1984

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NOTES

1 Henry Tyrrell, The History of Russia (1857) as quoted in Brock, Alan St. H., A History of Fireworks (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1949), p. 79.Google Scholar

2 The New Yorker, v. 59, June 6, 1983, p. 33.

3 Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, XIV (1781).

4 Fireworks/ Feux d'Artifices: French Fireworks from the 17 th to the 19th Century, Introduction and Catalogue by Patrick Braceo with Elisabeth Lovici (Washington, D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976), p. 10.

5 Brock, p. 106.

6 Brock, p. 91.

7 Brock, pp. 223–24.

8 Brock, p. 79.

9 So a reporter in the London Morning Post describes the fireworks for the Peace of Versailles in 1919 (Brock, p. 116).

10 Brock, p. 74.

11 Blumenthal, Arthur R., Theatre Art of the Medici, Catalog of Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1980), p. 57.Google Scholar

12 Golub, Spencer, Evreinov: The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1984).Google Scholar

13 Golub, Spencer H., The Monodrama of Nikolaj Evreinov (Diss. Kansas 1977), p. 383 (Preliminary version of 1984 book).Google Scholar

14 George Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as reprinted in Gassner, John, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre (New York: Crown, 1967), p. 184.Google Scholar

15 Beckerman, Bernard, “Shakespeare's Dramatury and Binary Form,” Theatre Journal, 33 (March, 1981), 5–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

16 “A Brief History of Grucci Fireworks,” single sheet distributed by the New York Pyrotechnics Co., Bellport, New York, with its catalogue.

17 Arent, Arthur, One-Third of a Nation, pp. 11–14Google Scholar, printed in Federal Theatre Plays (New York: Random House, 1938). On the title page Arent is listed as editor; elsewhere in the volume he is treated as author.