The events of June 1848: the Monte Cristo riots and the politics of protest

Title: The events of June 1848: the Monte Cristo riots and the politics of protest
Creator: Emeljanow, Victor
Relation: New Theatre Quarterly Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 23-32
Relation: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=137397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: Theatrical riots are usually dismissed as occasions during which aesthetic reactionaries battled reformers over stylistic issues of little relevance to pressing and immediate social concerns. Yet how true is this? What were the real issues which boiled over at such apparently confined and innocuous occasions as the Old Price Riots at Covent Garden in 1809, the Paris Ernani riot of 1830, the visit of a celebrated English actor which sparked the New York Astor Place riot in 1849, or the first night of a play which brought about the Playboy riots in Dublin in 1907? The complex social and cultural tensions on such occasions clearly operated during the two days of disturbance which came to be known as the Monte Cristo riots in London in 1848, and there are curious modern parallels.
Subject: theatrical; riots; Monte Cristo; protest
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27642
Identifier: uon:1868
Identifier: ISSN:0266-464x
Language: eng
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