num_pages: 198
description: The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball’s life, and his dramatic oeuvre.
language: English
title: The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre
titlecomplete: The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre (Entertainment and Leisure Studies)
publisher: Popular Press 1