- 222 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890 - 1939
About this book
This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of 'legitimate' theatre entertainment. This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890–1939
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Themes and Approaches
- 2 Our Sickly Age’s End – Musical Comedy and Modernity
- 3 Chin Chin Chinaman – Doing Other Cultures
- 4 Aristocracy and the Cultural Politics of Modernity
- 5 Interventions in the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
- 6 The Decline of West End Musical Comedy, 1912–1939
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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