The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage

by Joel H. Kaplan and Michael Richard Booth

Book Overview

This 1996 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 provenance broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing upon the economics of theatre management, the creation of new audiences,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521087988
• ISBN13: 9780521087988
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"