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Amusing and bizarre snippets of British theatrical history between the years 1880 and 1890. Actors have their feet poisoned by coloured tights and are fined for vandalizing Warwick Castle; actresses have violent rows in an oyster shop and accidentally glue their lips together; Wiliam McGonagall is the victim of a cruel practical joke... and much, much more.
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'The Era' began to devote significant space to theatrical matters in the early 1860s. In this volume a scene-painter is poisoned by his own paint; intrepid balloonists smash through stone walls on a terrifying journey across the backbone of England; Miss Lydia Howard, the Baby Actress, performs in a Shakespeare scene at the age of two; a theatre manager and a violinist indulge in an on-stage fight... and much, much more.
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