Plays by H. J. Byron : The Babes in the Wood, The Lancashire Lass, Our Boys, The Gaiety Gulliver
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
British and American Playwrights
ISBN-10
0521284953
ISBN-13
9780521284950
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 1984
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Biography, Literature and Literary studiesLiterature & literary studies
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This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences.
This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences. His burlesques of melodrama helped to bring an end to the more outlandish examples of the genre; inveterate punning became his trademark. Byron was also a competent editor, theatre manager and actor specializing in the eccentric roles of his own plays. As playwright he was second only to W. S. Gilbert and Tom Robertson, whose careers he helped to further. Jim Davis has edited four of the plays, illustrating them with contemporary drawings and providing an extensive introduction.
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