The Edwardian Theatre
Author: Michael R. Booth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-03-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521453752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 provinence broad patterns of theatrical production and consumption, focusing upon the economics of theatre management, the creation of new audiences, the politics of playgoing, and the meteoric rise of popular forms of mass entertainment, including musical comedy, variety theatre, and the cinema.