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Product Description: This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production...read more
By Tracy C. Davis (editor)

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9781551119007 | Broadview Pr, December 20, 2011, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage.

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Product Description: This book contains a rare collection of nineteenth century plays, each printed in the form that it was originally performed in, and with an introductory head note by Rowell. Also included is a useful glossary of stage terms and a further reading list...read more

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9781443733465, titled "Nineteenth Century Plays" | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $47.45 | About this edition: This book contains a rare collection of nineteenth century plays, each printed in the form that it was originally performed in, and with an introductory head note by Rowell.

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9781406790719, titled "Nineteenth Century Plays" | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2006, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: This vintage book contains a collection of notable nineteenth century plays.
9780192811042 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1972), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The texts of ten popular English plays are presented chronologically, revealing the development of Victorian drama and the emergence of the modern stage

Product Description: This five-volume collection contains 32 English and American burlesques of Shakespeare dating from the 19th century. Detailed introductions for each volume give the essential background to the topic, and new foreword provides a concise survey of subsequent scholarship and criticism to date...read more

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9784902454024 | 1 fac edition (Taylor & Francis, February 10, 2007), cover price $1040.00 | About this edition: This five-volume collection contains 32 English and American burlesques of Shakespeare dating from the 19th century.

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Product Description: Burlesque was one of the most reviled - and most appealing - types of theatrical performance in the Victorian age. Wildly popular in their own day, burlesque plays are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Yet, as Richard Schoch shows in this text, burlesques are a distinctive form of metatheatrical criticism - plays about plays - and thus offer us an opportunity to understand how drama changes over time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Richard W. Schoch (editor)

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9780754633624 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 1, 2003, cover price $134.95 | About this edition: Burlesque was one of the most reviled - and most appealing - types of theatrical performance in the Victorian age.

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Product Description: A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian AgeBy the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sara Hudston (editor)

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9780413744609 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian AgeBy the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible.

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Product Description: This is a unique edition of four "high society" Victorian comedies, currently enjoying revival on the London stage. The volume includes: Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, W. S. Gilbert's Engaged, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money, and Henry James's The High Bid...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780192832962 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 9, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This is a unique edition of four "high society" Victorian comedies, currently enjoying revival on the London stage.

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Product Description: From Romantic verse drama to historical tragrdy, this collection of plays is a necessary contribution to a full understanding of the nineteenth-century theatrical and the development of modern theatre, including works by Joanna Baille and Mrs Henry Wood.
By Adrienne Scullion (editor)

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9780460877299 | Everymans Library, March 1, 1996, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: From Romantic verse drama to historical tragrdy, this collection of plays is a necessary contribution to a full understanding of the nineteenth-century theatrical and the development of modern theatre, including works by Joanna Baille and Mrs Henry Wood.

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By Jeffrey N. Cox (editor)

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9780821410158, titled "Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825" | Ohio Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Although children's plays of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are rarely anthologized or even mentioned in reference books or histories of theatre, theatre historian and playwright Jonathan Levy found an embarrassment of riches when he set about developing this collection...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313266973 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1992, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Although children's plays of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are rarely anthologized or even mentioned in reference books or histories of theatre, theatre historian and playwright Jonathan Levy found an embarrassment of riches when he set about developing this collection.

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Product Description: Book by Ashley, Leonard R. N.

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9780819171078 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 1989), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Book by Ashley, Leonard R.

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Traces the evolution of English drama during the nineteenth century, examining the melodrama and realism movements, theatres, staging, and actors. Includes scenes from plays by Tom Taylor, Oscar Wilde, and Bernard Shaw.

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9780717512355 | Dufour Editions, June 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of English drama during the nineteenth century, examining the melodrama and realism movements, theatres, staging, and actors.

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9780023592607, titled "Exercise and Sport Sciences Review" | Macmillan Pub Co, January 1, 1980, cover price $29.95 | also contains Exercise and Sport Sciences Review

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9780413396303, titled "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Play for Serious People" | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, July 1, 1983), cover price $12.95
9780413310002 | New edition (Methuen, June 1, 1980), cover price $8.95 | also contains Körperpsychotherapie: Grundriss Einer Theorie Für Die Klinische Praxis

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Product Description: This anthology contains nine masterpieces by nine major Victorian and Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne. Professor Kauvar and Sorensen have carefully selected the tests of these nine verse dramas, most of which were stage failures during their authors' lifetimes, and have provided a critical introduction to each...read more
By Gerald B. Kauvar (editor)

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9780838676318 | Associated Univ Pr, March 1, 1981, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This anthology contains nine masterpieces by nine major Victorian and Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne.

Product Description: (John Bull, by George Colman the Younger; Money, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; New Men and Old Acres, by Tom Taylor and Augustus William Dubourg; Engaged, by William Schwenk Gilbert; The Tyranny of Tears, by Charles Haddon Chambers.)
By Michael Booth (editor)

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9780198124658 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: (John Bull, by George Colman the Younger; Money, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; New Men and Old Acres, by Tom Taylor and Augustus William Dubourg; Engaged, by William Schwenk Gilbert; The Tyranny of Tears, by Charles Haddon Chambers.
9780198124665 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $235.50

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9780405091216 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, August 1, 1972), cover price $30.95

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