'The power of attraction': the staging of Wilde and his contemporaries at the St James's Theatre, 1892–1895

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'The power of attraction': the staging of Wilde and his contemporaries at the St James's Theatre, 1892–1895

The actor-manager system remained pivotal to West End production throughout the later nineteenth century. Focusing on one actor-manager, George Alexander, and using records of his expenditure on productions during the early 1890s, Lucie Sutherland demonstrates how financial data can be used to exami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sutherland, Lucie
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2015
Subjects:	Actor-Manager George Alexander Treasury Book West End Theatre Matinee
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32268/

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