Overview
- Glimpse into the lost world of Music Hall; live entertainment around the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Provides a unique view through descriptions of both the content of various acts and audience reaction to them
- Covers the paucity of sources and importance of The Red Letter reviews, framing the material in an historical context
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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About the authors
David Huxley is Editor in Chief of The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He was Senior Lecturer on the Film and Media course at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, until 2018. He has written widely on popular culture, including comics, film and comedy. His most recent publication is Lone Heroes and the Myth of the American West in Comic Books 1945-1962 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
David James is an independent researcher and Senior Lecturer on the Film and Media course at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published on a variety of subjects, including sitcom, Chaplin and the Music Hall. His latest publication is Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days: at Work with the Comic Genius (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Red Letter at the Music Hall
Book Subtitle: Reviews from 1902–1914
Authors: David Huxley, David James
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84028-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84027-3Published: 28 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84030-3Published: 29 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84028-0Published: 27 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 165
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comedy Studies, Performing Arts