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Paradise lost nor regained: social composition of theatre audiences in the long nineteenth century.

From: Journal of Social History  |  Date: 12/22/2004  |  Author: Gras, Henk; van Vliet, Harry

This essay criticises on empirical grounds the assumptions about the social composition of theatre audiences from the late eighteenth century to the Great War as they were made in theatre historiography from the late nineteenth century till well into the twentieth century (even till the present day). We focus on Dutch historiography, since the empirical evidence presented comes from the Rotterdam theatre archives. The grand narrative it criticizes, however, was international. We will ...

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