The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays: The Inchape Bell; Did You Ever Send Your Wife to Camberwell?; The Game of Speculation; The Lights o' London; The Middleman (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Fitzball, Edward; Coyne, Joseph Stirling; Lewes, George Henry; Sims, George Robert; Jones, Henry Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192827367 ISBN 13: 9780192827364

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays is a new selection of five nineteenth-century English plays, none of which has been recently available in print. Each represents vividly and masterfully the three dominant dramatic forms of the Victorian era: melodrama, farce, and comedy. All were extremely popular with audiences, and much vigour, excitement, and variety of dramatic expression of their time can be found in these texts. Included are Edward Fitzball's The Inchcape Bell; Joseph Stirling Coyne's Did You Ever Send Your Wife to Camberwell?; The Game of Specualtion by George Henry Lewes; George Robert Sims's he Light's 'o London; and The Middleman by Henry Arthur Jones. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with an introduction and detailed annotation.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael R. Booth is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, University of Victoria, Canada.

Review:

`highly worthwhile and ably edited gathering' Nineteenth-Century Literature, 51:1, June 1996

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0192827367
• ISBN 13: 9780192827364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Booth Michael R.