That Great Magician: Comic and Curious Shakespearean Snippets From the Legendary Theatrical Paper 'The Era', 1864-1910 - Paperback

by Julia D. Atkinson (Compiled by)

'The Era' was Britain's leading theatrical newspaper in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. This book is a collection of Shakespeare-related extracts from the paper ranging from the comical ( inept amateurs, on-stage mishaps) - to the bizarre (over-enthusiastic audience members falling over the balcony, a best-selling novelist's objection to the building of a public library near Shakespeare's birthplace).