The Orient on the Victorian Stage

Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Edward Ziter, The Orient on the Victorian Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. 235 pp. £45.00.

In July 1853, the Illustrated London News praised a new production of Byron's Sardanapalus, under the direction of Edmund Kean, for serving as 'the medium of placing on the boards the disinterred glories of ancient Nineveh.' According to Edward Ziter, 'Kean's scientific necromancy was well timed; three months earlier the British Museum had opened a separate gallery, dubbed the Nineveh room, solely devoted to the display of Assyrian antiquities' (151). Both Kean's production at the ...

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