Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278) and index
Contents:
Before the curtain / Nina Auerbach -- Actors and acting / Joseph Donohue -- show business economy and its discontents / Tracy C. Davis -- Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft : techniques and issues / Russell Jackson -- Music for the theatre : style and function in incidental music / Michael Pisani -- Victorian and Edwardian audiences / Jim Davis, Victor Emeljanow -- Performing identities : actresses and autobiography / Mary Jean Corbett -- Comedy and farce / Michael R. Booth -- Encountering melodrama / David Mayer -- music hall / Jacky Bratton -- Theatre of the 1890s : breaking down the barriers / Peter Raby -- New theatres for a new drama / Cary M. Mazer -- fallen woman on stage : maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female / Sos Eltis -- Reimagining the theatre : women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period / Susan Carlson, Kerry Powell -- The East-End Theatre / Heidi J. Holder