19th-Century Theatre Reading List

Auerbach, Nina, Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1990

Bailey, Peter, Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Booth, Michael R., Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981

Bratton, Jacky, New Readings in Theatre History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Davis, Jim, and Victor Emeljanow, Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880, Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001

Davis, Tracy C., The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Davis, Tracy C., Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-century Britain, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Foulkes, Richard, ed., British Theatre in the 1890s: Essays on Drama and the Stage, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Jackson, Russell, Victorian Theatre: A New Mermaid Sourcebook, London, A & C Black, 1989

Moody, Jane, Illegitimate Theatre in London 1770-1840, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000,

Foulkes, Richard, Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002

Powell, Kerry, ed., Cambridge Companion to Edwardian and Victorian Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Powell, Kerry, Women and Victorian Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Schoch, Richard W., Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Schoch, Richard W., Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Southern, Richard, The Victorian Theatre: A Pictorial Survey, Newton Abbott, David & Charles, 1970

Taylor, George, Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1989

Vlock, Deborah, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Wearing, J.P., ed.,  The London Stage: A Calendar of Plays and Players, 1890-1959, 15 vols., Metuchen, N. J., Scarecrow Press, 1976-84