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Victorian Theatricals from Menageries to Melodrama - a Study which also includes full script of The Factory Lad by John Walker & Society by T.W. Robertson & The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert & The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Pinero
Sara Hudston Price: $27.95
By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world
where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience
possible
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 ‘Theatrical Behaviour’ looks at the world of the audience and includes extracts from Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park; Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; an anonymous playlet called Acting Proverbs; and an extract from Marie Corelli’s novel Sorrows of Satan
In ‘Fun and Freaks’ we explore the world of popular, sensationalist entertainment through the eyes of Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dion Boucicault and others
In the final section, ‘Society’, we have the full scripts of four of the principal melodramas and serious plays of the age -
