This book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude toward the Edwardians and their world, the essays in this collection take as their provenance broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing on the economics of theater management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical comedy, variety theater, and the cinema.
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"...interesting historical material unavailable elsewhere....belongs in the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in cultural studies and the theatre." Theatre Journal
"While these essays vary in focus and originality of research, they may be excitingly crossread to discern the contours of the dominant--usually economic and sexual--themes which claim for this decade the distinction of a separate study." Veronica Kelly, Victorian Review
"While these essays vary in focus and originality of research, they may be excitingly crossread to discern the contours of the dominant--usually economic and sexual--themes which claim for this decade the distinction of a separate study." Veronica Kelly, Victorian Review
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This book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude towards the Edwardians and their world, the essays in this collection take as their provinence broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing upon the economics of theatre management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical comedy, variety theatre, and the cinema.
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The image of Albert Edward, the cigar-smoking, pleasure-loving sportsman, playgoer, and first gentleman of Europe who succeeded his mother Queen Victoria as King Edward VII in 1901, looms over the decade he dominated in characteristic but problematic ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suffrage critics, musical comedy girl, theatre enterprise, suburban theatres, mind the paint, music hall entertainment, variety theatre, male impersonator, suffrage cause, ideal spectator, theatre criticism, new drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, East End, Drury Lane, Granville Barker, West End, William Archer, Lord Chamberlain, Bernard Shaw, Rebecca West, Peter Bailey, First World War, Standard Theatre, East London, George Edwardes, Max Beerbohm, Stage Society, The Freewoman, Daily Herald, Henry Irving, Select Committee, Gaby Deslys, Moss Empires, Peter Pan, Cicely Hamilton, British Library New!
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The image of Albert Edward, the cigar-smoking, pleasure-loving sportsman, playgoer, and first gentleman of Europe who succeeded his mother Queen Victoria as King Edward VII in 1901, looms over the decade he dominated in characteristic but problematic ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suffrage critics, musical comedy girl, theatre enterprise, suburban theatres, mind the paint, music hall entertainment, variety theatre, male impersonator, suffrage cause, ideal spectator, theatre criticism, new drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, East End, Drury Lane, Granville Barker, West End, William Archer, Lord Chamberlain, Bernard Shaw, Rebecca West, Peter Bailey, First World War, Standard Theatre, East London, George Edwardes, Max Beerbohm, Stage Society, The Freewoman, Daily Herald, Henry Irving, Select Committee, Gaby Deslys, Moss Empires, Peter Pan, Cicely Hamilton, British Library New!
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- The Edwardian Theatre (Drama and theatre studies) by John C. Trewin on 7 pages
- Peter Pan (Everymans Childrens Library) by J M Barrie on 5 pages
- Peter Pan -Lib (Heirloom Classics (Deluxe)) by Jim Barrie on 5 pages
- The Madras House by H. Granville Barker on 5 pages
- Peter Pan (Acting Edition) by Sir James M. Barrie on 5 pages
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- CONSUMING FANTASIES: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL, by LISE SHAPIRO SANDERS on 7 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Kerry Powell on 6 pages
- The Musical: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by William Everett on page 61, page 62, and page 63
- Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City by Peter Bailey in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Brian Singleton on page 28, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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