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Victorian popular culture. ca. 1750-1940 1840-1910
Music hall, theatre and popular entertainment, ca. 1750-1940 1840-1910
Music hall, theatre and popular entertainment
Electronic collection of rare books, ephemera and visual material relating to the world of popular and alternative entertainment in Britain and American throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Victorian and Edwardian periods were a golden age for variety, vaudeville and theatre. The era also played host to a vast range of other public entertainments and spectacles, from the educational to the decadent. This collection of textual and visual material has been selected for its rarity and covers a fascinating period in the history of music hall, theatre, pleasure gardens, exhibitions, scientific institutions, and more. It includes material relating to: May Moore Duprez, E.L. Blanchard, Sarah Sophia Banks, Philip Astley, Madame Tussaud, Dion Boucicault, J.R. Planche, Charles Mathews, Oscar Hammerstein, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens.
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