Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life

by Richard Foulkes

Book Overview

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, influential contributions to the debate on child actors, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754604667
• ISBN13: 9780754604662
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages