Nineteenth Century Plays

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This collection showcases significant plays from the nineteenth century that shaped the modern stage's evolution, featuring works like "Black Eyed Susan" and "The Colleen Bawn." It highlights the transition to a proscenium arch stage illuminated by electricity, reflecting the era's theatrical innovations. The volume aims to preserve these notable texts, which are becoming rare and costly, by offering an affordable modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.