British Entertainers in France / / Victor Leathers.
This volume presents a record of visits to France by British entertainers and reports their reception by the critics, the artists, and the public. Speculation as to influence is indulged in only where influence seems to have been apparent and indisputable.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1959 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Prelude, with Variations
- 2. Battle Royal
- 3. On with the Dance
- 4. "Cut the Dialect and Come to the 'Osses"
- 5. The Pleasures of a Year and the Follies of a Day
- 6. Beauty and the Beast
- 7. "Once More Unto the Breach ... "
- 8. Shakespeare, Smithson, Shore, and Company
- 9. Anticlimax
- 10. "Well Have We Done, Thrice Valiant Countrymen"
- 11. History Repeats Itself
- 12. Here Come the Clowns!
- 13. Tumblers and Talkers, a Fool and Footitt
- 14. The Why and Wherefore
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index of Proper Names