Robert Macaire, Or, the Exploits of a Gentleman at Large (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788822261953)

Critical edition of an unpublished anonymous play, first performed at the Adelphi Theatre (London) in 1835, now for the first time attributed to John Baldwin Buckstone. In the Introduction Marchesi traces the origins of the myth of Robert Macaire and its literary rewritings, discusses Buckstone's version in the framework of his oeuvre, and provides a detailed historical reconstruction of the first production of the play in its context.

Author: John Baldwin Buckstone,Maria Serena Marchesi
ISBN-10: 882226195X
ISBN-13: 9788822261953
Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2012
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback