Victorian Theatre: The Theatre in Its Time [Paperback]

Russell Jackson (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0941533727 | ISBN-13: 978-0941533720 | Publication Date: April 21, 1998

"...A valid and informed analysis of the Victorian stage and a sourcebook that is remarkably rich..."–Theatre Notebook

Editorial Reviews

Review

This collection...offers numerous delightful and insightful glimpses into a period of great changes and turbulence in the theater and in society at large...Recommended. (Choice )

Victorian Theatre collects excerpts from memoirs, newspaper articles, Parlimentary testimony, and periodical essays...The sense of 'voice' or 'voices' resulting from the immediacy of primary material makes this collection particularly interesting... (Victorian Studies )

Victorian Theatre collects excerpts from memoirs, newspaper articles, Parlimentary testimony, and periodical essays...The sense of 'voice' or 'voices' resulting from the immediacy of primary material makes this collection particularly interesting... (Victorian Studies )

About the Author

Russell Jackson joined the department as Allardyce Nicoll chair in 2004. Previously he taught at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and in the drama department of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. From 1978 to 2004 he was a Fellow (and latterly, Director) of the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham’s Stratford-based centre for graduate studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books (April 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941533727
• ISBN-13: 978-0941533720
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,497,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)