This is a new selection of five English nineteenth-century plays, none of which has been recently available. In the case of "The Lights o' London", a famous drama of the 1880s, no printed text has ever before been published. Each of the plays represents the three dominant dramatic forms of the Victorian era: melodrama, farce and comedy. All were extremely popular with audiences, and much of the vigour, excitement and variety of dramatic expression of their time can be found in these texts.
- ISBN10 0198121733
- ISBN13 9780198121732
- Publish Date 28 September 1995 (first published 7 September 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 October 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 286
- Language English