...A valid and informed analysis of the Victorian stage and a sourcebook that is remarkably rich...-Theatre Notebook

About the Author
Russell Jackson joined the department as Allardyce Nicoll chair in 2004. Previously he taught at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and in the drama department of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. From 1978 to 2004 he was a Fellow (and latterly, Director) of the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham's Stratford-based centre for graduate studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Reviews
This collection...offers numerous delightful and insightful glimpses into a period of great changes and turbulence in the theater and in society at large...Recommended. * CHOICE *
Victorian Theatre collects excerpts from memoirs, newspaper articles, Parlimentary testimony, and periodical essays...The sense of 'voice' or 'voices' resulting from the immediacy of primary material makes this collection particularly interesting... * Victorian Studies *



Book Information
ISBN 9780941533720
Author Russell Jackson
Format Paperback
Page Count 370
Imprint New Amsterdam Books
Publisher New Amsterdam Books
Weight(grams) 522g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 135mm * 26mm