Early Stages : : Theatre in Ontario 1800 - 1914 / / ed. by Anne Saddlemyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Mary M.,; Careless, J.M.S.,; Davies, Robertson,; Fairfield, Robert,; Lenton-Young, Gerald,; O’Dell, Leslie,; Plant, Richard,; Saddlemyer, Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Saddlemyer, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)

A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a ‘learned pig’ – all of these offered an evening’s entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada. Although the population in 1800 was only 90,000, a wide range of entertainers perf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• The Ontario Historical Studies Series
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Cultural Setting: Ontario Society to 1914
• 3. Amateurs of the Regiment, 1815-1870
• 4. The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire
• 5. Entertainers of the Road
• 6. Variety Theatre
• 7. Theatres and Performance Halls
• 8. Chronology: Theatre in Ontario to 1914
• Select Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index