TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arrighi, Gillian; Davis, Jim
TI  - The Cambridge Companion to the Circus
SN  - 9781108719223
U1  - 791.3 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Drama And Theatre
N1  - index
N2  - In 2018 we marked the 250th anniversary of the founding of the modern circus, an event traced to the entrepreneurial initiatives of Philip Astley (1742-1814). Astley enclosed a circle of ground on the south side of the Thames in 1768 where he exhibited his unusual equestrian skills for a paying public. The circus's specialised history in different parts of the globe reveals that for just over two hundred and fifty years this hybrid entertainment, with its own codes of physical and comic performance, visuality, and business management, has developed and diversified through multiple cycles of reinvention. Oscillating through phases of illegitimacy on the fringes of society and validation for its aesthetic and entertainment appeal, the circus's restless evolution has always been influenced by unique confluences of the political environment, artistic heritage, and aesthetic trends particular to its geographic context
ER  -