The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.

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JEFFREY RICHARDS is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University, UK. His most recent books are Hollywood's Ancient Worlds (2008), Sir Henry Irving: a Victorian Actor and His World (2005) and Imperialism and Music (2001). His jointly authored work John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre (with Katherine Newey) is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

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Book Title: The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage
Authors: Jeffrey Richards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250895
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22936-5Published: 09 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31078-4Published: 09 October 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-25089-5Published: 09 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Ancient History, British and Irish Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Victorians and the Ancient World

The Early Victorian Actor-Managers and the Ancient World

Living Greek Statues

Wilson Barrett’s Ancient World

Irving’s Ancient World

Tree’s Ancient World

The Toga Play: Climax and Decline

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