A French critic looks across the Channel at the English theatre from the 1820s to the 1890s: Kean and Macready, Douglas Jerrold and Bulwer-Lytton, Tom Taylor and Robertson, Henry Irving, the censorship, the critics and the new drama of Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones, who contributes the introduction.
An outsider’s sharp, sympathetic account of Victorian theatre. Download the free EPUB.