1950 The London Theatre in the Eighteen-Thirties

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

In the publisher's original paper wraps. 

This volume is a first edition.

This copy is one of the early monographs issued by the Society for Theatre Research after its founding in 1948, reflecting its mission to publish original sources and studies of British stage history.

This volume covers a decade marked by the decline of the great patent theatres and the rise of minor houses and early London seasons of stars like Jenny Lind and Paganini.

Charles Rice (1808–1856) was a London journalist and theatre critic who wrote extensively on the stage during the 1830s, his observations provide a rare contemporary record of London’s theatrical life in that decade.

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece.