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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Nineteenth-Century Theatre"”.
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Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature
<p>The theatre in the nineteenth century was a source of entertainment similar in popularity to today's film culture, but critics, of both that age and today, often look down on nineteenth-century theatre as lacking in aesthetic merit. Just as many of the films now being produced in Hollywood are …
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Victorian Girls and At-home Theatricals: Performing and Playing with Possible Futures
During the long nineteenth century, amateur, juvenile at-home theatricals were a popular pastime in English middle-class homes. The scripts, the process of “getting-up” a play, and opportunity to perform a variety of historical, fairy tale, and “Oriental” characters offered young people, especially …
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Dickens and the Making of His Readings
This thesis analyses and reappraises the prompt copies that Dickens made for his public readings. In many ways, my thesis expands upon the work of Philip Collins and Malcolm Andrews who have offered the most substantial scholarly engagements with Dickens’s readings. The work of these scholars has …