Victorian Theatre

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 		Entertainment for Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria held great appreciation for the performance arts, and did not hesitate to comment on the presentations.
Adelaide Neilson of Yorkshire, England
Adelaide Neilson rose from a life of poverty to become one of the most successful stage actresses in the Victorian era.
William Poel's Explorations of Hamlet
William Poel's interest in Shakespeare's texts coincided with the publication by William Griggs of facsimile copies of the First and Second Quartos of Hamlet in 1880.
The Origins of Victorian Theatrical Spectacle
The English theatre of the Victorian age remains notorious in the annals of theatre history for its excesses in production, but this extravagance has historical roots.
Ellen Terry
The queen of English Victorian theatre, Ellen Terry, was a child star under the tutelage of Charles Kean, a key member of a burgeoning dynasty of actors, and a romantic.