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This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. Whereas other studies offer a traditional approach to the theatres of high culture, John McCormick takes the role of impartial historian, uncovering the popular theatres of the boulevards, suburbs and fairgrounds. He focuses on the social and economic context in which vaudevilles, pantomimes and melodramas were performed, and ...

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Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France 2011, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780415514903

Paperback

Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France 1993, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415088541

Hardcover