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This illustrated reference transports general readers and students back to the golden age of London theater, an era of pageantry and technical innovations on the stage, with year-by-year entries on London's stage performers, performances, and productions in the 19th century. Coverage encompasses premiers by playwrights including Oscar Wilde and Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as revivals of Shakespeare and adaptations of novels by Dickens. The book includes 220 b&w historical photos and illustrations from the Westminster Libraries and Archives Theater Collection, showing actors, actresses, buildings, productions, and souvenir programs and playbills. Tanitch has written other books on theater.

London Stage in the Nineteenth Century fills a large gap: no other book conveys the essence of the age with such authenticity and wit . . riotously enjoyable There have been many accounts of the period but none quite so vivid or as evocative as this irresistible compendium of the foibles and passing glories of the stage.

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ROBERT TANITCH, playwright, author, critic, had the first professional production of one of his plays while he was still up at Oxford. His comedies include Call It Love (London and Vienna), Came the Knight (directed by Trevor Nunn at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) and Highly Confidential (starring Hermione Gingold in London). His comedy sketches are featured on the Internet. He has written and directed the cassette series, Shakespeare Interviews. He has been the Old Vic's education projects director and has lectured on Shakespeare and theatre in England, Australia, Indonesia and Kenya. He is the author of sixteen acclaimed books on theatre and film, including Ralph Richardson: A Tribute, Oliver, Ashcroft, Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Guinness, John Mills, Brando, Clint Eastwood, The Unknown James Dean, Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen, and London Stage in the 20th Century.

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