Music, Theater, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain

[Victorian Web Home —> Authors —> Social History]

Want to know how navigate the Victorian Web? Click here.

Composers Michael W. Balfe Sir Edward Elgar Edward German Richard Strauss Sir Arthur Sullivan Drama, including Dramatists Drama (sitemap) Dion Boucicault Robert Browning Oscar Wilde Sir William S. Gilbert Aesthetes and Decadents London Theaters Genre *** = contains musical performances you can hear] Melodrama Burlesque (material needed) Fairy Plays Middle Class Satire Musical Comedy The Music Hall*** Opera (see bibliography) Drawing-room Ballads or Parlour Songs*** Pantomime Tragedy Dramatic adaptations of Victorian Fiction Themes a Contemporary (1871) Look at Victorian Theater Politics in Theater (no linked material) Religion and the Church (no linked material) Mocking Society (no linked material) Selected Works Salome by Oscar Wilde Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan The Frozen Deep by Charles Dickens Political and Social History Music and social class in Victorian London The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850 The Development of Leisure in Britain after 1850 The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851 Popular Entertainment The Waltz, the Polka, and the shift from Traditional Group Dancing to Individual Pairs The Lord Mayor's Show, 1859 (from the Illustrated London News) Victorian settings of nursery rhymes by J.W. Elliott from the 1870s (outside VW) Victorian Toy Theatres — an Introduction

A View of Popular Theater by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage Bibliography and web resources Book Reviews General (including popular entertainment) British Music Hall and Variety Victorian Opera Theatrical memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies Related Websites Individual Figures Edward Gordon Craig Gielgud, John Harley Granville-Barker Henry Irving William Charles Macready George Bernard Shaw Ellen Terry Beerbohm Tree Oscar Wilde Music, Theatre, Popular Entertainment, and the Visual Arts Representations in Contemporary Art The Architecture of Victorian Theaters

Last modified 7 March 2025