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List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface Kerry Powell; PartI. Introduction: Before the curtain Nina Auerbach; Part II. Performance andContext: 1. Actors and acting Joseph W. Donohue Jr.; 2. The show businesseconomy and its discontents Tracy C. Davis; 3. Victorian and Edwardianstagecraft: techniques and issues Russell Jackson; 4. Music for the theatre:style and function in incidental music Michael Pisani; 5. Victorian andEdwardian audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow; 6. Performing identities:actresses and autobiography Mary Jean Corbett; Part III. Text and Context: 7.Comedy and farce Michael Booth; 8. Encountering melodrama David Mayer; 9. TheMusic Hall Jacky Bratton; 10. Theatre of the 1890s: Breaking down thebarriers Peter Raby; 11. New theatres for a new drama Cary M. Mazer; 12. Thefallen woman on stage: maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female SosEltis; 13. Reimagining the theatre: women playwrights of the Victorian andEdwardian period Susan Carlson and Kerry Powell; 14. The East End TheatreHeidi Holder; Index.