The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre
by Larry Stephen Clifton
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
Cloth: 978-0-87972-608-9 | Paper: 978-0-87972-609-6
Library of Congress Classification PR4699.F9Z55 1993
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball’s life, and his dramatic oeuvre.
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