The Edwardian Theatre : Essays on Performance and the Stage (Paperback)

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Joel H. Kaplan; 1. What is Edwardian theatre? Joseph Donohue; 2. 'Naughty but Nice': musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892?1914 Peter Bailey; 3. Varieties of life: the making of the Edwardian music hall Dave Russell; 4. Beating the bounds: gender play and role reversal in the Edwardian music hall J. S. Bratton; 5. Edwardian management and the structures of industrial capitalism Tracy C. Davis; 6. The New Drama and the new audience Dennis Kennedy; 7. Towards an ideal spectator: theatregoing and the Edwardian critic Victor Emeljanow; 8. Suffrage critics and political action: a feminist agenda Sheila Stowell; 9. 'A woman of genius': Rebecca West at the theatre John Stokes; 10. The East End Jim Davis; 11. Changing horses in mid-ocean: The Whip in Britain and America David Mayer; Index.