Plays
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Plays
（British and American playwrights, 1750-1920）
Cambridge University Press, 1984
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Plays by H.J. Byron
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Note
Biographical record: p. 33-36
"The plays of H.J. Byron": p. 216-220
Bibliography: p. [221]-222
Contents of Works
- The babes in the wood
- The Lancashire lass
- Our boys
- The Gaiety Gulliver
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences. His burlesques of melodrama helped to bring an end to the more outlandish examples of the genre; inveterate punning became his trademark. Byron was also a competent editor, theatre manager and actor specializing in the eccentric roles of his own plays. As playwright he was second only to W. S. Gilbert and Tom Robertson, whose careers he helped to further. Jim Davis has edited four of the plays, illustrating them with contemporary drawings and providing an extensive introduction.
Table of Contents
- The Babes in the Wood
- The Lancashire Lass
- Our Boys
- The Gaiety Gulliver.
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