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Fashionable Traditions
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Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs
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In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic ...
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This three-volume work will accomplish for the American non-musical theatre what Bordman's American Musical Theatre did for our song-and-dance entertainm...
Dibdin and the Dilettantes
Dibdin and the Dilettantes
This chapter combines archival research with a broad range of biography and social history to shed light on a little understood aspect of Regency-era entertainment, the private the...
Dibdin at the Royal Circus
Dibdin at the Royal Circus
In 1782, Dibdin entered into a partnership with Charles Hughes to set up a new entertainment venue, the Royal Circus. Its unique feature was the combination of an equestrian ring w...
The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai
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Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances
Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances
In addition to London commercial theatres, audiences enjoyed dramatic performances performed by strolling companies at local fairs, provincial inns, and in private performance. Dub...