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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2011
      October 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139031967
      9780521519014
      9781316620830
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      (228 x 152 mm)
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      0.51kg, 232 Pages
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      0.34kg, 232 Pages
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    All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital of the world. Bratton argues for the importance in Victorian culture of venues like the little Strand Theatre and the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street in the experience of mid-century London, and of plays drawn from the work of Charles Dickens as well as burlesques by the early writers of Punch. Discovering a much more dynamic and often woman-led entertainment industry at the heart of the British Empire, this book seeks a new understanding of the work of women including Eliza Vestris, Mary Ann Keeley and Marie Wilton in creating the template for a magical new theatre of music, feeling and spectacle.

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    'Jacky Bratton's monograph provides a revisionist account of the way in which the West End developed as a theatrical centre from 1830 to 1870, breaking with past histories that have been dismissive of the exuberant, iconoclastic, and disruptive nature of what was happening during these years … this is an important book, opening up new ways in which to examine the making of Victorian theatre and full of new insights to be absorbed and sometimes challenged.'

    Source: Victorian Studies

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