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The Orient on the Victorian Stage. By Edward Ziter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. ix + 235, 20 illustrations. £45 or $75 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

David Mayer
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

Extract

On 5 January 1813, an anonymous London theatre critic, reviewing Covent Garden's Harlequin and the Red Dwarf; or, The Adamantine Rock for The Times, enthused over the pantomime's oriental (i.e., Middle Eastern) subject matter, insisting that:

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2005 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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Footnotes

[Book Review Editor's note: This review was commissioned by the previous Book Review Editor, Jeffrey D. Mason, and was edited by Jody Enders.]