New resource – The Nineteenth Century Stage: Industry, Performance and Celebrity

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to The Nineteenth Century Stage: Industry, Performance and Celebrity from AM.

The Nineteenth Century Stage brings together primary source material from archival collections in the UK, USA and Australia to reveal the shifting and expanding theatre world of the nineteenth century. Featuring material such as prompt books, programmes, company records, photographs and playbills, users can explore the multi-faceted nature of the nineteenth-century theatre industry, the lives and careers of well-known actors and actresses and the production, performance and reception of popular plays of the time.