Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes w

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative selection of

A study of British theatre historiography, from its origins in the Restoration to its development as an academic discipline in the twentieth century.

Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays