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Victorian Theatricals.
A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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| Colección: | Diaries, Letters and Essays.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age. By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible. The theatre had become big business. This anthology brings together a variety of plays and prose which sets this phenomenon in perspective and traces the development of Victorian theatricals from private home events in the late-Georgian period to full-scale Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1890s. The section 'Theatri. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (448 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781408148389 1408148382 |