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British Drama of the Industrial Revolution by Frederick Burwick (review) - Modern Drama
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2016
- pp. 382-385
- Review
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Burwick offers a wide-ranging and impressively detailed account of the relation between the labour force of the early industrial age and the regional theatres that workers frequented. The book will aid scholars interested in the history of drama, especially as it relates to class and the politics of Romanticism and reform.