Music, Theater, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain

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Composers Michael W. Balfe) Sir Edward Elgar Edward German Richard Strauss Sir Arthur Sullivan Drama, including Dramatists Dion Boucicault Robert Browning Oscar Wilde Sir William S. Gilbert Aesthetes and Decadents London Theaters Genre Melodrama Burlesque Fairy Plays Middle Class Satire The Music Hall Opera (see bibliography) Pantomime Tragedy Dramatic adaptations of Victorian Fiction Themes a Contemporary (1871) Look at Victorian Theater Politics in Theater Religion and the Church Mocking Society Selected Works Salome by Oscar Wilde Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan The Frozen Deep by Charles Dickens Audience and Entertainment 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 Lord Mayor's Show, 1859 (from the Illustrated London News) Victorian settings of nursery rhymes by J.W. Elliott from the 1870s (outside VW) A Step Back in Time: Amnerican Victorian Music, 1835-1903 (outside VW) Victorian Toy Theatres — an Introduction Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured — Victorian Toy Theatre (outside VW) Victorian Magic Lantern Shows (outside VW)

A View of Popular Theater by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage Bibliography 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

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Last modified 29 May 2006