The making of Victorian drama / Anthony Jenkins
1991, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #404267
ISBN: 0521402050
Physical description; xi, 301 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Machine derived contents note: 1. Breaking through the darkness -- Victorian theatre -- 2. The grandeur of Nature Edward Bulwer -- 3. Domestic and commonplace Tom Robertson -- 4. Critics of the hearth W.S. Gilbert -- 5. Terrible leanings towards respectability Henry Arthur Jones -- 6. Shades of goodness Arthur Wing Pinero -- 7. A middle-class education Oscar Wilde -- 8. Vigilant open-mindedness Bernard Shaw -- Notes -- Index. Subjects; English drama 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Theater Great Britain History 19th century. Social problems in literature. English drama.
Price: €21.95