The Stage : Both before and behind the Curtain, from Observations Taken on the Spot

Name: The Stage
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108081641
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ISBN: 9781108081641

by Alfred Bunn

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

ISBN-10 1108081649

ISBN-13 9781108081641

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 15th, 2018

Print length 336 Pages

Weight 434 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.70 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Theatre studies Theatre studies

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Alfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and provides a fascinating account of the period when Bunn was running both the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane and the Opera House at Covent Garden.

The librettist and theatre manager Alfred Bunn (1796–1860) published these memoirs of his career, giving a view 'both before and behind the curtain', in 1840. He professes not to be fond of autobiographies, is clearly irritated at the not always flattering walk-on role he is given in the memoirs of some of the greatest contemporary performers, and regards this three-volume work as a way of settling a number of scores. His account cannot therefore be said to be unprejudiced, but it is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and - allowing for bias and exaggeration - provides a fascinating account of the period when Bunn was running both the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane and the Opera House at Covent Garden, providing libretti for some of the best known British composers of the period, and quarrelling with almost everyone he worked with in the course of his career.

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