Victorian Theatricals.
A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014
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| Series: | Diaries, Letters and Essays.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890s. The section 'Theatri. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781408148389 1408148382 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
