Pengarang: Davis Jim Davis

This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies: the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century British theatre audiences. In an attempt to bring some order to the enorm …

What do we mean by entertainment? How does this concept relate to theatre? Should theatre be for pleasure or instruction? Can it not be both? In this stimulating book, Jim Davis examines the relation …

"I have no intention of boasting about, nor excusing, my life. I will tell it the way it is, the way I see it. However some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty." …