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Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939
Len Platt
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Description for Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12photos, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; AVGM; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403932259
SKU
V9781403932259
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99-15
About Len Platt
LEN PLATT is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published widely on literary and musical cultures of the early twentieth-century. He is the author of Joyce and the Anglo-Irish: A Study of Joyce and the Literary Revival (1998), Aristocracies of Fiction: The Idea of Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literatures (2001) and American Culture and ... Read more
Reviews for Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939
'Musical comedy generated huge audiences, and thus can rightly be viewed as culturally and socially significant. Yet too frequently it and other 'middle-brow' cultures still remain beyond the cusp of scholarship. Len Platt's book rightly redresses this imbalance...It will remain a defining text for many years to come.' - Nick Hayes, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University