Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century

by Gillian Rodger and Gillian M. Rodger

In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077342
• ISBN13: 9780252077340
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"