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  • Part I. Introduction: Before the curtain / Nina Auerbach. - Part 2. Performance and context : 1. Actors and acting / Joseph Donohue ; 2. The show business economy, and its discontents / Tracy D. Davis ; 3. Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft: techniques and issues / Russell Jackson ; 4. Music for the theatre: style and function in incidental music / Michale Pisani ; 5. Victorian and Edwardian audiences / Jim davis and Victor Emeljanow ; 6. Performing indetities: actresses and autobiography / Mary Jean Corbett . - Part 3. Text and context: 7. Comedy and farce / Michael R. Booth ; 8. Encountering melodrama / David Mayer ; 9. The music hall / Jacky Bratton ; 10. Theatre of the 1890s: breaking down tne barriers / Peter Raby ; 11. New theatres for the new drama / Cary M. Mazer ; 12. The fallen woman on stage: maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated remale / Sos Eltis ; 13. Reimagining the theatre: women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period / Susan Carlson and Kerry Powell ; 14. The East-end theatre / Heidi J. Holder