| Description |
xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. |
| Contents |
Before the curtain / Nina Auerbach -- Actors and acting / Joseph Donohue -- The show business economy and its discontents / Tracy C. Davis -- Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft : techniques and issues / Russell Jackson -- Music for the theatre : style and function in incidental music / Michael Pisani -- Victorian and Edwardian audiences / Jim Davis, Victor Emeljanow -- Performing identities : actresses and autobiography / Mary Jean Corbett -- Comedy and farce / Michael R. Booth -- Encountering melodrama / David Mayer -- The music hall / Jacky Bratton -- Theatre of the 1890s : breaking down the barriers / Peter Raby -- New theatres for a new drama / Cary M. Mazer -- The fallen woman on stage : maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female / Sos Eltis -- Reimagining the theatre : women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period / Susan Carlson, Kerry Powell -- East-End Theatre / Heidi J. Holder. |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Theater -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English drama. |
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English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Powell, Kerry.
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| ISBN |
052179157X hardback |
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0521795362 paperback |
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