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.

The essays collected in this volume assert the importance of recognizing the role of women and comedy in order to understand these texts, their historical contexts, and their possibilities and limits as models for social engagement.

All roads lead to London - and to the West End theater. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment.

Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic generated audience attention for the riders and acrobats, by parodying their skills in his own tumbling and ...

Bratton presents a completely new history of the dynamic beginnings of the modern world of London West End theatre.

This book presents, for the first time, fully edited texts of some of the plays which these tacit collaborations produced: dramatizations of Dickens's early novels (from The Pickwick Papers to Barnaby Rudge) and, especially, his Christmas ...