Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Deborah A. Symonds. (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 180. $39.95.)
Venue 33, the Pleasance Theatre, hosts over 185 shows and a quarter of a million theatergoers during the month-long Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Unknown to the actors, they perform opposite a point of dramatic tragedy, the ancient city wall through which, in the ...