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Pages: 290
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-09 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire
Spectacles of Reform
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Amy E. Hughes
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-17 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audien
The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: David Thatcher Gies
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-08-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
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Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
The Performing Century
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Pages: 282
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This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to th