The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre
By: edited by Kerry Powell.
Contributors: Powell, Kerry.
Series: Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Theater -- England -- History -- 20th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 19th century; English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Description: "This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft, and the audiences themselves, plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of theatre. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278) and index.