Bibliography and Image Sources

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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

Astley’s Amphitheatre

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)

Nautical Melodrama

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

Gothic Melodrama

Timour the Tartar picture from: The Theatre Museum by Alexander Schouvaloff (London: Scala Publications Ltd., 1987)

Gauzes and Traps

Corsican Brothers from: Booth, Michael R.: English Melodrama (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1965)

Light

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.

Influence of Painting and Art

All Hogarth engravings from: from Hogarth; the complete engravings (London; Thames and Hudson, 1968)

Tableaux

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)

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