Routledge library editions
Subtitle: Victorian theatre
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781315681023; 9781317398912; 9781317398905; 9781317398929; 9781138922723
Subjects: Theater; History; Théâtre; Histoire; PERFORMING ARTS; General
Other titles: Victorian theatre
Description: Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1981, this compact set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship devoted to 19th Century, Victorian, theatre. A small set of performance history and criticism, this set includes a biography of Henry Irving, a look at the rise of the status of a career as actor, and a consideration of the advent of dramatic criticism. These volumes present together a lively picture of the development of the contemporary theatre.
Notes: Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field
Table of contents: title: <P>The Rise of the Victorian Actor <EM>Michael Baker</EM>; Henry Irving and the Victorian Theatre <EM>Madeleine Bingham</EM>; Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 <EM>Michael Booth</EM>; Nineteenth Century British Theatre <EM>Edited by Kenneth Richards and Peter Thomson</EM>; Victorian Dramatic Criticism <EM>Edited by George Rowell; </EM> English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914 <EM>James Woodfield</EM></P>