Playbill : a history of the theatre in the West Country / by Harvey Crane
1980, First Edition. Plymouth : Macdonald and Evans. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #416199
ISBN: 0712120270
Physical description; xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; A study of the theatre in Devon and Cornwall. Includes bibliographical references (page 284) and index. Contents; The awakening in the west -- Enter the Elizabethans -- The blizzard -- A turn towards respectability -- Piercing the gloom -- Blood and thunder -- Theatre of splendid misery -- Noble thoughts, sin and scenery -- Disaster at Exeter -- Victorian heyday -- The "not-so-roaring" twenties -- The fringe, from Morley to Minack -- Enter variety -- Picking up the bits -- The great unpaid -- Full circle -- Enter the stars -- Bibliography. Subjects; Theater England West Country History. Theatre Great Britain Cornwall History. Theater England Cornwall History. Theater England Devon History. Theater England West Country History. Devon Theatre to 1979. Cornwall Theatre to 1979.
Price: €14.95