The Britannia Diaries of Frederick Wilton

Edited by Jim Davis

Wilton, who was stage manager at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, provides a behind-the-scenes, day-by-day account of a London East-End theatre know for its presentation of robust acting, burlesques, pantomimes and harlequinades, leavened with black-face minstrels, comic and sentimental singers, acrobats, ventriloquists and other wonders of which Dickens and Bernard Shaw wrote with enthusiasm.

Hardback, 288pp, 16 illus., (1992), ISBN 085430, £13.50 ($27.00) inc. p&p.

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