Victorian Dramatic Criticism

Name: Victorian Dramatic Criticism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Victorian Dramatic CriticismAuthor(s): George Rowell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138934610, 978-1138934610\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1971. The Victorian Age was one of popular theatre and increasingly popular journalism. One manifestation of this journalism was the emergence of the dramatic critic from the anonymity and brevity which had previously characterized periodical treatment of the theatre. If Victorian theatre is regarded as existing essentially thirty years before Victoria acceded and continuing until the outbreak of war in 1914, the names of Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt at one end, and of Beerbohm and MacCarthy at the other, can be added to a list that includes Lewes, James, Archer, Walkley, Shaw and Montague. All these writers, and others less famous, are represented in this selection.\n\nBy selecting the articles on the basis of the play in performance, rather than the play as literatur.