Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film

When Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in 1895, his plays were withdrawn from the London stage and, as Joel Kaplan and Sheila Stowell note, 'exiled to the provinces and played with their author's name discreetly removed.' Reinstating them on the London stage...

Shakespeare, in a memorable inaccuracy, imagined in The Winter's Tale that the shipwrecked Antigonus and the infant Perdita washed ashore on the seacoast of Bohemia.1 No such coast exists. In 1817, William Hazlitt called this error one of the play's...

David Krasner, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.Nadine George-Graves, The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and...

Catherine Burroughs, ed., Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi + 344.Romantic drama provides the ground for some of the most exciting and innovative scholarship...