Auteur: Gillian Arrighi

Gillian Arrighi is Lecturer in Drama in the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her academic interests focus on circus and popular entertainments of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on the contribution of children to the entertainment industry. She is Associate Editor of the scholarly e-journal, Popular Entertainment Studies.Victor Emeljanow is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely in journals like Theatre Notebook, Theatre Survey and New Theatre Quarterly on such subjects as the reception of Chekhov in Britain, the career of Theodore Kommisarjevsky, the engagement of Beerbohm Tree with Ibsen on the West End and Victorian popular dramatists.