Bibliography and Image Sources
These are arranged by the page on which they appear. Clicking on the page title will take you back to where the image appears on the site.
The Foyer
Poster of bill-seller: from The Theatre Museum by Alexander Schouvaloff (London: Scala Publications Ltd., 1987)
The development of Melodrama: Laws
Theatre Royal, Haymarket from http://vl-theatre.com
The Patent Theatres: Drury Lane and Covent Garden
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: from http://vl-theatre.com
Battle of the Alma (poster):from Great Theatres of London by Ronald Bergan (London; Multimedia Books, 1987)
The Ring at Astley’s:from Great Theatres of London by Ronald Bergan (London; Multimedia Books, 1987)
The Stars of the Show: The animals
Elephant: from Great Theatres of London by Ronald Bergan (London; Multimedia Books, 1987)
Poster for Astley’s: Great Theatres of London by Ronald Bergan (London; Multimedia Books, 1987)
Types of Melodrama
Picture from Panorama: Illustrated London News 1842-1865 Selected by Leonard De Vries (London: Murray, 1967)
Water Tank at Sadler’s Wells: from Shirley S. Allen: Samuel Phelps and Sadler’s Wells Theatre (Middletown; Wesleyan University Press, 1971) Interior of Sadler’s Wells Theatre showing water tank. Drawn and engraved by Pugin and Rowlandson for R. Ackerman’s Microcosm of London, 1809
Timour the Tartar picture from: The Theatre Museum by Alexander Schouvaloff (London: Scala Publications Ltd., 1987)
Corsican Brothers from: Booth, Michael R.: English Melodrama (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1965)
Picture of Lighting desk from: The Theatre Museum by Alexander Schouvaloff (London: Scala Publications Ltd., 1987)
Exhibitions: Feasts for the Eyes
Pictures of the great Exhibition of 1851: from Tobin Andrews Sparling: The Great Exhibition: A Question of Taste (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1982) British Department From the Transept; Decoration of the Transept.
All Hogarth engravings from: from Hogarth; the complete engravings (London; Thames and Hudson, 1968)
Pictures of Henry Irving as Mathias in The Bells from http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/mathias.htm
Other Sources Used:
Booth, Michael: English Melodrama (London : H.Jenkins, 1965)
Booth, Michael: Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1981)
Rahill, Frank: The World of Melodrama ( London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1967)
Rowell, George (ed.): Nineteenth Century Plays, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Bradby, David, James, Louis, and Sharratt, Bernard (eds.): Performance and Politics in Popular Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980)