Product Description: Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period...read more

Product Description: This innovative book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives together spanned the period from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, from the heyday of neoclassicism to the coming of realism...read more

Product Description: The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays is a new selection of five nineteenth-century English plays, none of which has been recently available in print. Each represents vividly and masterfully the three dominant dramatic forms of the Victorian era: melodrama, farce, and comedy...read more

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Product Description: Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry and Eleonora Duse are the three most celebrated names from a golden age for actresses, the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. This book illuminates a crucial but often misunderstood phase of modern theatrical history.