Author: SHORT, ERNEST
Title: Sixty Years of Theatre
Description: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society. 1954, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. The book includes material from 'Theatrical Cavalcade' and 'Fifty Years of Vaudeville', revised and brought up to date and extended to cover the years since their publication which have long been out of print. 39 photographic and illustration plates. A marvellous study of the great actors from Henry Irving, drama and comedy from Victorian and Edwardian times, actor managers, plays of Ibsen, Shaw, Gilbert and Sullivan and much more. An entire theatre history concisely put into this 402 page volume. C3C. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Theatre Critic, Henry Irving, Victorian Theatre History


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