Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France by John McCormick

By John McCormick

this is often the one publication to supply an account of the way well known theatre constructed from the fairground cubicles of the eighteenth century to turn into a car of mass leisure within the following century. while different reviews provide a standard method of the theatres of excessive tradition, John McCormick takes the function of neutral historian, uncovering the preferred theatres of the boulevards, suburbs and fairgrounds. He specializes in the social and financial context during which vaudevilles, pantomimes and melodramas have been played, and explores the audiences who loved them.

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