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"Coventry's Forgotten Theatre" (The Theatre Royal & Empire Theatre of Varieties). By Ted Bottle. 250pp., numerous illustrations, extensive index.
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This book adds many jig-saw pieces to our knowledge
of the nineteenth century provincial theatre. It covers the healthy
state of drama at the beginning of this period, reasons for the
wholesale destruction of theatres in the 1840s and 1850s, the
patent issue, the circuit system, benefits, infant prodigies,
the effects of the Exeter fire, the growth of the touring system,
through to the conversion of the Royal into the Empire of Varieties.
It will be seen that many of the ups and downs of theatres of
that century were curiously mirrored in the twentieth.