Astley's Amphi-Theatre/Including Slides (Theatre in Focus Series)
Publisher: Chadwyck-Healey
Published: December 1980
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780859640596
Subjects: General; Theatre, drama; Plays / Drama; History: World
Description: Astley's Amphitheatre occupies a unique position in the history of popular entertainment. For over a hundred years it was a familiar feature of London life: no student of the theatre, literature or of social history can have failed to come across it. Astley's began as a riding school, and developed into that vigorous hybrid of theatre and circus which captivated generations of Londoners and was immortalized by Dickens. It formed a vital link between the legitimate and popular theatre, and influenced the development of the circus in Europe and America. - Introduction.